"thukpa" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tʊkpɑː/ Forms: thukpas [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཐུག་པ (thug pa). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|bo|ཐུག་པ}} Tibetan ཐུག་པ (thug pa) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} thukpa (countable and uncountable, plural thukpas)
  1. A Tibetan noodle soup. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods Related terms: འཐེན་ཐུག (english: 'then thug), རྒྱ་ཐུག (english: rgya thug), བག་ཐུག (english: bag thug), འབྲས་ཐུག (english: 'bras thug) Translations (Tibetan noodle soup): 藏麵 (Chinese Mandarin), 藏面 (zàngmiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), トゥクパ (tukupa) (Japanese), थुक्पा (thukpā) (Nepali), ཐུག་པ (english: thug pa) (Tibetan)

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