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Today, chwee kueh is a popular breakfast item in Singapore, served in many of its hawker centres and it is commonly associated with Singaporean cuisine. [1] [3] To make chwee kueh, rice flour and water are mixed together to form a slightly viscous mixture. The mixture is then poured into small saucer-like aluminium cups and steamed, forming a ...
abarca - encompasses; abarcar - to encompass; abarrotado - crowded; abarrote - grocery; abastacer - to supply; abastece - supplies; abastecido - stocked; abastecimiento - catering
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
Kueh: South/Southeast Asia: Colorful bite sized, pudding-like snacks with a starchy texture. The kueh is made from a batter of rice or tapioca flour, glutinous rice, coconut milk and other ingredients. It can be steamed (e.g. kueh bakul), baked (e.g. kueh bahulu), deep fried (e.g. cekodok) or pan fried (e.g. apam balik). [14] Kutsinta: Philippines
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Chhau-a-koe, also spelt caozaiguo, is a type of kuih with a sweet dough made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, and a ground cooked paste of Jersey cudweed or Chinese mugwort. The herbs give the dough and the finished kuih a unique flavor and brownish green color. [1] The kuih is found in Fujian, Hakka, and Taiwanese cuisine.
The Spanish word petate has given rise to other commo nahuatlisms such as petatearse (“to die”), petatear (meaning “to bluff” in a card game), and petatazo (the smell of marijuana). The Spanish word tiza is a nahuatlism used to refer to sticks of chalk. The word is seldom used in Mexico, with the Hellenism gis used in its place.
The 5000 words in Davies' list are lemmas. [5] A lemma is the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary. [6] Singular nouns and plurals, for example, are treated as the same word, as are infinitives and verb conjugations. The table below includes the top 100 words from Davies' list of 5000.