တိုဟူးနွေး

Burmese

တိုဟူးနွေး

Etymology

တိုဟူး (tuihu:) +‎ နွေး (nwe:), with the former element borrowed from Chinese 豆腐.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tòhúnwé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tuihu:nwe: • ALA-LC: tuihūʺnveʺ • BGN/PCGN: tohu:nwe: • Okell: touhùnweì

Noun

တိုဟူးနွေး • (tuihu:nwe:)

1. soft chickpea tofu, served warm before it sets and garnished as a salad

References

• “တိုဟူးနွေး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.