单词 | tsampa |
释义 | tsampan. In Tibet: a staple food made from barley-meal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > other grain dishes couscousc1593 flummery1623 stirabout1828 bran-mash1838 tsampa1852 skirlie1914 1852 Dublin Rev. 33 12 As tsamba is not a very toothsome affair, we used to make three or four balls of it, with our tea. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tsamba, a Tartar [properly Tibetan] name for the meal of barley. 1891 W. W. Rockhill Land of Lamas iii. 129 They cultivate the soil sufficiently to raise what barley is needed to make tsamba. 1908 Athenæum 13 June 721/3 The native food..in the Tibetan districts tsamba (barley meal mixed with yak butter)..was plain and uninviting. 1909 Bible in the World Sept. 268/2 After tea and tsamba I retired to the roof. 1937 H. W. Tilman Ascent of Nanda Devi iv. 31 The Tibetan tsumpa—barley, or wheat, which has been parched and then ground into meal. 1952 N. Morin & J. A. Smith tr. M. Herzog Annapurna v. 78 Khangsar was very poor: not a pound of tsampa to spare. 1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard ii. 85 The two outcasts dip up tsampa, the roasted maize or barley meal, ground to powder and cooked as porridge or in tea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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