lahpet

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

From Burmese လက်ဖက်. Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la and hence a distant tea.

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