balichao

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Macanese balichám, from Malay belacan (“shrimp paste”).[1][2]

Noun

balichao (uncountable)

  1. A shrimp or krill paste used in Macanese cuisine.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “balchão”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 303
  2. ^ Hoogervorst, T. (2018), “Sailors, tailors, cooks, and crooks: On loanwords and neglected lives in Indian Ocean ports”, in Itinerario, volume 42, number 3, →DOI, pages 516–548
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