kuih kosui

• kueh kosui

Borrowed from Malay kuih kosui. See also Malay kuih putu, Tagalog kutsinta.

kuih kosui (uncountable)

1. (Malaysia) A traditional Malaysian steamed rice cake made with tapioca flour and rice flour, flavoured with palm sugar and pandan, and eaten with grated coconut.

   Synonym: kuih lompang

• kueh kosui
• kuih kasui, kueh kasui

From kuih (“bite-sized pastry cake”) +‎ kosui, with the former from Hokkien 粿 (kóe, “rice cake pastry”), while the latter possibly Hokkien 古錐 / 古锥 (kó͘-chui, “cute; adorable”). Compare Indonesian kasui. See also Tagalog kutsinta.

• (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˌkwe(h) ˈkosuj/ [ˌkwe(h) ˈko.sui̯]
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˌkweh ˈkosuj/ [ˌkweh ˈko.sui̯]
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˌkwih ˈkosuj/ [ˌkwih ˈko.sui̯]
• Hyphenation: kuih ko‧sui

kuih kosui (plural kuih-kuih kosui)

1. a traditional steamed rice cake made with tapioca flour and rice flour, flavored with palm sugar and pandan, and eaten with grated coconut

   Synonym: kuih lompang

• “kuih kosui”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), A Malay-English dictionary (Romanised)‎^[1], Mytilene (Greece): Salavopoulos and Kinderlis Art - Printers, page 515