thukpa

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུག་པ (thug pa).

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Noun

thukpa (countable and uncountable, plural thukpas)

  1. A Tibetan noodle soup.
    • 1983, Andrew Harvey, A Journey in Ladakh‎:
      Sometimes a little vegetables, sometimes a little meat, sometimes a little soup with noodles, tomatoes and cabbage. Thukpa they are calling it.
    • 2001, Namgyal Lhamo Taklha, Born in Lhasa‎, page 64:
      The Sherpas helped us build a cooking fire at the end of the day, and then Norzin, Cherry from Sikkim, and I cooked Tibetan rice or flour soups called thukpas for the group of German, Thai, Indian, Australian, and British friends.
    • 2014, Lee Geok Boi, Asian Noodles‎, page 163:
      Thukpa is a generic Tibetan word for any soup or stew combined with noodles. This particular thukpa uses fresh homemade egg noodles and can also be called Chinese thukpa.

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