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butter tea

butter tea noun: a traditional drink in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, made from tea leaves, butter (traditionally from yak milk), water and salt.

Noun

butter tea (countable and uncountable, plural butter teas)

  1. A traditional drink in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, made from tea leaves, butter (traditionally from yak milk), water and salt.

butter tea meaning in Vietnamese

butter tea in Vietnamese

traditional drink
trà bơ
More languagesFewer languages
Dzongkha
སྲུ་ཇ sru ja

Forms of butter tea

pluralbutter teas

Questions about butter tea

What does butter tea mean?
Butter tea means a traditional drink in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, made from tea leaves, butter (traditionally from yak milk), water and salt.
What is butter tea in Vietnamese?
Butter tea in Vietnamese is trà bơ. See Butter tea meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is butter tea?
Butter tea is a noun.
What is the plural of butter tea?
The plural of butter tea is butter teas.

Words near butter tea in the dictionary

  1. butter slime
  2. butter slimes
  3. butter someone's biscuit
  4. butter tart
  5. butter tarts
  6. butter tea
  7. butter teas
  8. butter teeth
  9. butter the cony
  10. butter tofu
  11. butter tooth

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