balut

See also: Balut, băluț, and Băluț

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay balut and Tagalog balut.

Alternative forms

• balot

Noun

balut (plural baluts)

1. Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell

Translations

embryo food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛蛋 (máodàn)

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Etymology 2

From Cebuano balut. Credited to Edgar Woolbright.

Noun

balut

1. a dice game similar to Yahtzee

Anagrams

• bulat, tubal

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Bikol Central

Etymology

From Tagalog balut.

Noun

balut

1. an Asian street food consisting of a developing duck embryo boiled alive and eaten in the shell

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Cebuano

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tagalog balut.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧lot

Noun

balut

1. balut (street food)

Etymology 2

Reborrowed from English balut, from Cebuano balut. Credited to Edgar Woolbright.

Noun

balut

1. balut (dice game)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay balut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.lʊt̪]
• Hyphenation: ba‧lut

Noun

balut (first-person possessive balutku, second-person possessive balutmu, third-person possessive balutnya)

1. wrapper, wrapping.

Derived terms

• balutan
• berbalut
• membalut
• membalutkan
• pembalut
• pembalutan
• terbalut

 

Further reading

• “balut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balut₂. Cognate of Tagalog balot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.lʊt̪]
• Hyphenation: ba‧lut

Noun

balut (Jawi spelling بالوت, plural balut-balut, informal 1st possessive balutku, 2nd possessive balutmu, 3rd possessive balutnya)

1. wrapper, wrapping.

Verb

balut

1. wrap.

Further reading

• “balut” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpaluːh(t)/

Noun

balut

1. nominative plural of ballu

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• balot

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balut₂.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧lut
• IPA^(key): /baˈlut/, [bɐˈlut̪̚]

Noun

balút

1. balut (fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled and eaten from the shell)

Anagrams

• tubal