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Cebuano Food and Eating Words with Tagalog Translations

28 food & eating in Cebuano, each with its Tagalog equivalent and an English gloss. Entries come from our phrasebook, compiled from published references rather than produced by the translation engine. Cebuano entries are marked pending review until a native speaker has confirmed them.

Food & eating

Meals, ingredients and asking for them.

Food & eating: Cebuano phrases with Tagalog and English translations
CebuanoTagalogEnglish
Bugaspending reviewBigasRice (uncooked)All eight distinguish uncooked grain from cooked rice with separate words — a distinction English has to spell out.
Kan-onpending reviewKaninRice (cooked)Kapampangan 'nasi' is a Malay-shaped word that none of its neighbours share.
Isdapending reviewIsdaFishBikol and Pangasinan 'sira' is a fish. In Tagalog and Cebuano 'sira' means broken or spoiled — so a Bikolano menu can read alarmingly to a Manila reader.
Karnepending reviewKarneMeat
Manokpending reviewManokChicken
Baboypending reviewBaboyPig
Itlogpending reviewItlogEggOne of the sharpest splits in this file. 'Itlog' covers Tagalog through Hiligaynon, then Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan and Pangasinan each go their own way entirely.
Asinpending reviewAsinSaltThe province of Pangasinan is named for this word — 'pang-asin-an', the place where salt is made.
Utanpending reviewGulayVegetable
Mokaonpending reviewKumainTo eatIlocano, Kapampangan and Pangasinan all use 'mangan' — a genuine Luzon isogloss, and one of the very few things the three share against the Visayan 'kaon'.
Gigutom kopending reviewGutom na akoI'm hungry
Lamipending reviewMasarapDeliciousEight languages, eight unrelated words for the same compliment. If you learn one word from this list, learn the local one for this.
Busog na kopending reviewBusog na akoI'm full
Panpending reviewTinapayBread
Asukalpending reviewAsukalSugar
Sagingpending reviewSagingBanana
Lubipending reviewNiyogCoconut
Manggapending reviewManggaMango
Maispending reviewMaisCorn
Ahospending reviewBawangGarlicThe Visayan languages took the Spanish 'ajos'; the Luzon languages kept the native 'bawang'.
Sabawpending reviewSabawSoup, broth
Tam-ispending reviewMatamisSweet
Aslompending reviewMaasimSour
Halangpending reviewMaanghangSpicy
Paratpending reviewMaalatSalty
Maglutopending reviewMaglutoTo cook
Platopending reviewPlatoPlate
Kutsarapending reviewKutsaraSpoon

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