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‖ tsamba|ˈtsæmbə|
Also tsampa, tsumpa.
[Tibetan.]
An article of food made from barley-meal, extensively used in Tibet and adjacent parts.
1852Dublin Rev. XXXIII. 12 As tsamba is not a very toothsome affair, we used to make three or four balls of it, with our tea. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tsamba, a Tartar [properly Tibetan] name for the meal of barley. 1891W. W. Rockhill Land of Lamas iii. 129 They cultivate the soil sufficiently to raise what barley is needed to make tsamba. 1908Athenæum 13 June 721/3 The native food..in the Tibetan districts tsamba (barley meal mixed with yak butter)..was plain and uninviting. 1909Bible in the World Sept. 268/2 After tea and tsamba I retired to the roof. 1937H. W. Tilman Ascent Nanda Devi iv. 31 The Tibetan tsumpa—barley, or wheat, which has been parched and then ground into meal. 1952Morin & Smith tr. Herzog's Annapurna v. 78 Khangsar was very poor: not a pound of tsampa to spare. 1979P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard ii. 86 The two outcasts dip up tsampa, the roasted maize or barley meal, ground to powder and cooked as porridge or in tea. |