Meanings
pu-erh1
Pu-erh2
- alternativehistoricalAlternative form of Pu'er in Yunnan, China.
The rarest and most expensive type of tea in the world is the mysterious Pu-Erh (poo-AIR) tea from the Pu-Erh region of China.
[2009, Mark Ukra, Sharyn Kolberg, The Ultimate Tea Diet: Burn Fat and Lose Pounds Fast and Forever, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 202 more examples
In reporting to the Empress of China the occurrence of a violent earthquake at the town of Pu-erh on November 14 last year, the Viceroy of Yunnan observes with humility that this awful visitation is to be regarded as a penalty of Heaven for his own inefficiency and incompetency and that of his staff.
1885 May 14, “NOTES”, in Nature, page 37Pu-erh tea takes its name from its production area in Pu-erh County, Yunnan Province. It is made of broad-leaved tea, and available as loose leaves, compressed tea cakes, tea bricks of varied sizes and tea bowls.
2012, “Pu-erh Tea”, in The China Tea Book, CYPI Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100
Origin
- Chinese普洱茶
- Englishpu-erh
Shortened from pu-erh tea, from the Wade–Giles romanization (properly p‘u-êrh) of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá).
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