lahpet
English
/ləˈpɛt/
noun
Definitions
- (rare) A dish, popular in Burma, consisting of pickled or fermented tea leaves (encountered in the West especially as tea leaf salad).
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese လက်ဖက် (tea, tea plant, fermented pickled tea) derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (leaf, tea, flat thing).
Origin
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
*s-la
Gloss
leaf, tea, flat thing
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
葉