balbacua.
A Filipino stew of beef slow-cooked until tender, especially in the cuisine of Visayas and Mindanao.
Meaning & usage
A Filipino stew of beef slow-cooked until tender, especially in the cuisine of Visayas and Mindanao.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Cebuano balbakuwa, from Spanish barbacoa (“slow-cooked meat on an open fire”) (whence also the English doublet barbecue), from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. The dish was likely named due to the similarity in the length of time in cooking and the tenderness of the meat. Compare Tagalog balbakwa, English barbacoa.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.