English
- year-end sacrifice
- ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month
- dried meat
- the 12th lunar month
- (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
- traditional Chinese way of drying and preserving meat by select appropriate meat and cut in a special way, seasoning with salt, sugar and other ingredient. Then, hang them up and drying by wind or sunlight. The end-product having wax-liked semi-translucency looking and texture. Usually practised in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.
粵語
- 一種傳統保存肉類嘅方法：選好用料之後用適當刀功切好，然後用鹽、糖等配料醃製，最後掛起生曬或者風乾。整好咗嘅臘味表面會因為乾燥過程滲出油份而形成好似蠟噉嘅半透明質地。通常會喺農曆臘月（十二月）去整。
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Words containing 臘
- 臘肉laap6 juk6
meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
- 希臘hei1 laap6
Greece
- 臘腸laap6 coeng2
sausage
- 臘月laap6 jyut6
twelfth lunar month
- 燒臘siu1 laap6
siu mei (燒味|烧味[shao1 wei4]) made from cured meat 臘肉|腊肉[la4 rou4]
- 臘味laap6 mei2
cured meat or fish or other cured products
- 臘鴨laap6 aap2
cured duck; pressed dried salted duck
- 臘起laap6 hei2
to be put into a situation where there is no way out
- 白臘baak6 laap6
white sea bream
- 臘克laap6 hak1
lacquer (loanword)
- 方臘fong1 laap6
Fang La
- 臘梅laap6 mui4
wintersweet
- 掛臘鴨gwaa3 laap6 aap2
(v.) (slang) to commit suicide by hanging oneself.
- 吊臘鴨diu3 laap6 aap2
to hang; to hang oneself
- 臘腸褲laap6 coeng2 fu3
slim fitting pants
- 勐臘maang5 laap6
see 勐臘縣|勐腊县[Meng3 la4 Xian4]
- 真臘zan1 laap6
Khmer kingdom of Kampuchea or Cambodia
- 臘八laap6 baat3
8th of December in Lunar calendar
- 古希臘gu2 hei1 laap6
ancient Greece
- 希臘人hei1 lip6 jan4
Greek (people)
- 臘八節laap6 baat3 zit3
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
- 希臘文hei1 laap6 man4
Greek literature
- 古希臘語gu2 hei1 laap6 jyu5
Ancient Greek (language)
- 臘八粥laap6 baat3 zuk1
Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar