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puto.

A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpuːtoʊ/
  1. A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.

    Philippines
Where this word comes from

From Tagalog puto (and other Philippine languages), from Malay putu as in Malay kuih putu (“Kue putu”), from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

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