Borrowed fromSpanishMacau, fromPortugueseMacau, fromHokkien. See more atPortugueseMacau. CompareSpanishMacán,Japanese媽港(makao),LatinMachao.
The“good cook” sense is due to cooks and chefs acrossManila and large towns across thePhilippines, especiallyLuzon such as inPampanga andBaguio, were historically usually ethnic Chinese people fromMacau orCanton (Guangdong province) and their descendants, as per Manuel (1948).
Makáw (Baybayin spellingᜋᜃᜏ᜔)
- Macau (a city andspecial administrative region ofChina)
1998, Mariano Ponce, Jaime Carlos de Veyra,Efemérides filipinas:Sa pagkakawalay ng Portugal sa korona ng España noong 1640 ay napasama rin ang Goa, Molukas,Makaw, atbp. Ang mga iyon ay itinuturing ng mga pag-aaring Portugés, bago naisanib ang kahariang ito sa Imperyong Kastila noong 1580.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Makáw (Baybayin spellingᜋᜃᜏ᜔)
- MacaoChinese;Macanese;Cantonese(aChinese person fromMacau orCanton)
- (by extension) agoodcook
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948)Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications,page40
