palabok
Tagalog
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /paˈlabok/ [pɐˈlaː.bok̚]
- Rhymes: -abok
- Syllabification: pa‧la‧bok
Noun
[edit]palabok (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜊᜓᜃ᜔)
- a thick gelatinous sauce of tomato mix in cassava starch usually with powdered dried shrimps or smoked fish topped over pancit noodles in some pancit dishes (such as pancit palabok, pancit luglog, pancit malabon, etc.)
- Ellipsis of pansit palabok.
- (figurative) flowery elaborations or expressions
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “palabok”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “palabok”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1794
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 754