Home › Words › P › palitawpalitawpalitaw means A small, flat, sweet rice cake eaten in the Philippines.EtymologyFrom Tagalog palitaw.nounA small, flat, sweet rice cake eaten in the Philippines.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ampaw 73% match — A Filipino sweet puffed rice cake. vs palitaw →biko 66% match — A sweet rice cake from the Philippines, made with coconut milk and brown sugar. vs palitaw →kakanin 65% match — Any of various dessert rice cakes. vs palitaw →bibingka 64% match — A rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves. vs palitaw →champorado 63% match — champorado (a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Philippine cuisine) vs palitaw →taho 63% match — A Philippine snack food made from sweetened flavoured tofu with sago pearls. vs palitaw →pandesal 62% match — A kind of bread roll, popular in the Philippines. vs palitaw →binagol 60% match — A Filipino delicacy made from mashed giant taro corms, condensed milk, coconut milk, sugar, and egg yolks, served in half of a coconut shell. vs palitaw →