thukpa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུག་པ (thug pa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊkpɑː/

Noun

thukpa (countable and uncountable, plural thukpas)

1. A Tibetan noodle soup.
   • 1983, Andrew Harvey, A Journey in Ladakh‎^[1]:

     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^[2], 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^[3], 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.

Translations

Tibetan noodle soup

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藏麵／藏面 (zàngmiàn), 藏麵／藏面 (zàngmiàn)

• Japanese: トゥクパ (tukupa)
• Marathi: थुकपा (thukpā)
• Nepali: थुक्पा (thukpā)
• Tibetan: ཐུག་པ (thug pa)

See also

• འཐེན་ཐུག ('then thug)
• རྒྱ་ཐུག (rgya thug)
• བག་ཐུག (bag thug)
• འབྲས་ཐུག ('bras thug)