hopya

Cebuano

Borrowed from Spanish hopia, ultimately from Hokkien, possibly 好餅／好饼 (hó piáⁿ, literally “good pastry”) according to Chan-Yap (1980), possibly an old genericized trademark by a particular Chinese deli company. See also Early Manila Hokkien 香餅／香饼 (hioⁿ-piáⁿ, “fragrant pastry”), Hokkien 癖 (phiah, “craving”), Hokkien 好癖 (hó-phiah, “good temper”), Cebuano lumpya.

hopyà

Borrowed from Spanish hopia, ultimately from Hokkien, possibly 好餅／好饼 (hó piáⁿ, literally “good pastry”) according to Chan-Yap(1980)^[1] and Manuel (1948),^[2] possibly an old genericized trademark by a particular Chinese deli company. See also Early Manila Hokkien 香餅／香饼 (hioⁿ-piáⁿ, “fragrant pastry”), Hokkien 癖 (phiah, “craving”), Hokkien 好癖 (hó-phiah, “good temper”), Tagalog lumpiya.

hopyà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜉ᜔ᜌ)

hopia (bean-filled pastry)
- 1937, Guillermo Estrella Tolentino, Ang wika at baybaying Tagalog:
  ...HOPYA, BIKO, LUMPIYA, MIKI, MAMI, BITSU, SIYANSI, TIYANI, atbp. Isa pang katangian ng wikang Tagalog ay ang PALAMUHATAN (Etimologia) ng maraming salita.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

^ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
^ Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 24