bebinca
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English
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Noun
bebinca (uncountable)
- A traditional Indian pudding made with coconut milk and garnished with almonds, and served warm.
Macanese
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Etymology
Unclear. Possibly from Konkani (bibik), or borrowed from Malay bingka (“Malay cake made of rice flour, coconut cream, eggs and sugar”), entering Macanese via Indo-Portuguese with reduplication of the first syllable.[1] Likely not related to Portuguese beber (“to drink”). Compare Tagalog bibingka, Cebuano bibingka, Hiligaynon bibingka, Spanish vivinca.
Pronunciation
Noun
bebinca
- pudding, cake (sweet or savoury)
- bebinca di lete ― milk pudding
- bebinca di nabo, bebinca-rábano ― turnip cake
- bebinca-pulú ― glutinous rice cake
Usage notes
- This is a generic term for any sort of pudding or cake, and does not necessarily pertain to the Indo-Portuguese dessert.
- bebinca di nabo and bebinca-rábano are equivalent to Cantonese 蘿蔔糕／萝卜糕 (lo4 baak6 gou1), whence also a Macanese derivation lo-pac-cou.
References
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “bebinca”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 309