angkak

From Hokkien 紅麴／红曲 (âng-khak, “red yeast”), as in 紅／红 (âng, “red”) + 麴／曲 (khak, “yeast”).

• IPA^(key): /aŋkak/
• Hyphenation: ang‧kak

angkak (first-person possessive angkakku, second-person possessive angkakmu, third-person possessive angkaknya)

1. food coloring from rice fermentation by Monascus purpureus.

Borrowed from Hokkien 紅麴／红曲 (âng-khak, “red yeast”).

• Hyphenation: ang‧kak
• IPA^(key): /ʔaŋˈkak/, [ʔɐŋˈkak]

angkák

1. a reddish kind of leaven

• lebadura
• paalsa

• “angkak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language‎, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 13
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics‎ (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137