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som tam

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English

Syllables
som -tam
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

green papaya salad, a Thai dish of sliced sour fruits and vegetables, as green papayas, tomatoes, etc., and other ingredients, as lime, palm sugar, chilis, garlic, dried shrimps, fried peanuts, etc., which are pounded together in a mortar.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Thai ส้มตำ (sôm-dtam).

Usage

Inflected Forms

som tum (alternative) somtam (alternative) somtum (alternative)

Questions

What does som tam mean?
green papaya salad, a Thai dish of sliced sour fruits and vegetables, as green papayas, tomatoes, etc., and other ingredients, as lime, palm sugar, chilis, garlic, dried shrimps, fried peanuts, etc., which are pounded together in a mortar.
Where does som tam come from?
From Thai ส้มตำ (sôm-dtam).

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