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samgyetang

samgyetang noun: a Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng.

samgyetang: a Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with...
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Noun

samgyetang (uncountable)

  1. A Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng.

samgyetang meaning in Thai and Vietnamese

samgyetang in Thai

Korean chicken soup with ginseng
ซัมกเยทัง samkàyeethaŋ

samgyetang in Vietnamese

Korean chicken soup with ginseng
sâm kê thang

Origin of samgyetang

Borrowed from Korean 삼계탕(蔘鷄湯) (samgyetang), Sino-Korean word literally meaning “chicken soup with ginseng”.

Questions about samgyetang

What does samgyetang mean?
Samgyetang means a Korean soup consisting of a young chicken filled with rice, garlic and jujube and spiced with ginseng.
What is samgyetang in Thai?
Samgyetang in Thai is ซัมกเยทัง (samkàyeethaŋ). See Samgyetang meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is samgyetang?
Samgyetang is a noun.

Words near samgyetang in the dictionary

  1. samfu
  2. samfus
  3. samgha
  4. samghas
  5. samgyeopsal
  6. samgyetang
  7. Samh
  8. Samhain
  9. samhainophobe
  10. samhainophobes
  11. samhainophobia

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