mooncake

Etymology
From, a , from + , probably because the pastry’s traditional round shape resembles the full moon visible during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Noun

 * 1) A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).

Translations

 * Arabic: كَعْكَة اَلْقَمَر
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: pastisset de lluna
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 月餅
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: månekage
 * Finnish: kuukakku
 * French:
 * German: Mondkuchen
 * Indonesian: kue bulan
 * Japanese: 月餅
 * Khmer: នំព្រះច័ន្ទ, នំសែនព្រះខែ
 * Korean: 월병(月餅)
 * Macanese: bôlo batê-pau
 * Malay: kuih bulan
 * Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡝᡶᡝᠨ
 * Portuguese: bolo lunar
 * Russian: лу́нный пиро́г
 * Spanish: pastel de luna
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ขนมไหว้พระจันทร์
 * Turkish: ay keki
 * Uyghur: ئايتوقاچ
 * Vietnamese: (餅中秋)
 * Zhuang: nyued