English Explanatory Dictionary

lahpet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dish, popular in Burma, consisting of pickled or fermented tea leaves (encountered in the West especially as tea leaf salad).

Pronunciation

/ləˈpɛt/

Word forms

lahpet laphet lehpet lephet

Etymology

From Burmese လက်ဖက် (lakhpak, “fermented or pickled tea”). The first element is ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la and hence a distant doublet of tea.

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