bilo-bilo

Tagalog

Alternative forms
  • bilobilo — obsolete
  • bilubilo, bilu-bilo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biˌlo biˈlo/, [bɪˌlo bɪˈlo]
  • Hyphenation: bi‧lo-bi‧lo

Etymology 1

Reduplication of possibly either:

  • bilo (“act of shaping kneaded flour or rice flour into ball-shaped lumps”)
  • Hokkien 米糯 (bí-lō, “glutinous rice”) according to Chan-Yap (1980)

Noun

biló-biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

  1. glutinous rice balls (eaten with ginataan)
    Synonyms: (Southern Tagalog) pinaltok, (Batangas, Mindoro) pinindot, (Batangas) palaeros, (Quezon) hulog-hulog

Etymology 2

Reduplication of possibly either bilo (“cylindrical roll”) or Spanish velo (“veil”).

Noun

biló-biló (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

  1. (nautical, obsolete) sheet (of a sail)
  2. (architecture) awning sheet
    Synonyms: habong, lambong

Further reading
  • “bilo-bilo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
  • Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 163
  • 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
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