Transliteration: ldag pa
I. <verb> v.t. བལྡགས་པ་/ ལྡག་པ་/ བལྡག་པ་/ ལྡོགས་/. This has been given as "to lick" but merely translating it that way does not give the correct connotation. It means "to use the tongue to eat food without using a utensil" as in "to lick up" or "lick out of the bowl". Tibetans regularly eat various foods directly from the bowl and then lick out the bowl at the end. E.g., they regularly drink ཐུག་པ་ thick soup from a bowl without a utensil, licking out the bowl at the end. E.g., སྐྱོ་མ་བལྡགས་པ། "ate the gruel, licking it out of the bowl"; ཞོ་ལྕེས་བལྡགས་པ། "licked up the curd with his tongue".II. <noun> Cognate to the verb, "foods that can be licked up" e.g., སྐྱོ་མ་ gruel or ཐུག་པ་ thugpa.