thukpa
/tʊkpɑː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes a little vegetables, sometimes a little meat, sometimes a little soup with noodles, tomatoes and cabbage. Thukpa they are calling it."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ཐུག་པ
Usage
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
འཐེན་ཐུག
རྒྱ་ཐུག
བག་ཐུག
འབྲས་ཐུག