Definitions

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  • noun A Thai soup flavoured with fish sauce, lemongrass, lime juice, and chillies

Etymologies

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From Thai ต้มยำ (literally boil mixture)

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Examples

  • Breakfast was complimentary, so we ventured out for lunch and dinner to the hole-in-the-wall Thai places, and had some amazing pad thai, green curry, tom yam, and fried rice, usually for pretty affordable prices.

    back and polyphonized jlundberg 2008

  • Please could you make the following perfectly: stir fry with interchangeable meat and veg, tom yam, some kind of take away style curry, Japanese salad dressing, gambas a pil pil.

    The Guardian World News Felicity Cloake 2011

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