thukpa
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུག་པ (thug pa).
Noun
thukpa (plural thukpas)
- 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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See also
- འཐེན་ཐུག ('then thug)
- རྒྱ་ཐུག (rgya thug)
- བག་ཐུག (bag thug)
- འབྲས་ཐུག ('bras thug)
Translations
Tibetan noodle soup
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