binagoongan
dish cooked with shrimp paste
From root: bagoong
Usage Note
Binagoongan refers to a savory Filipino dish, most commonly pork, that is sautéed and stewed in shrimp paste.
Examples
" Masarap ang binagoongan. "
Natural Translation
The shrimp-paste dish is delicious.
Literal Translation
Delicious the shrimp-paste-dish.
" Ang kangkong ay niluto na binagoongan. "
Natural Translation
The water spinach was cooked with shrimp paste.
Literal Translation
The water-spinach was cooked that is shrimp-paste-dish.
" Tuwing kapistahan, laging may binagoongang baboy na inihahanda ang aking lola para sa pamilya. "
Natural Translation
During every fiesta, my grandmother always prepares pork cooked in shrimp paste for the family.
Literal Translation
Every fiesta, always there-is shrimp-paste-dish that pork that prepares the my grandmother for the family.
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