How to pronounce Tibs

Tibs is written ጥብስ where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /tʼɨbs/. In plain English letters that is TIBS, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Tibs?

Tibs is a main dish of Ethiopia. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are beef and lamb. It tastes spicy and savory.

Where Tibs comes from

Tibs is one of 23 signature dishes of Ethiopia on this map.

• Doro wat ዶሮ ወጥ · Main dish · Ethiopia

  Doro wat is the chicken stew of Ethiopian feasts.

• Genfo ገንፎ · Main dish · Ethiopia

  Genfo is a stiff porridge of barley or wheat flour, known as ga'at in Tigrinya and marqaa in Oromo, and one of the common breakfast dishes of Ethiopia; it is also eaten in Eritrea.

• Firfir ፍርፍር · Main dish · Ethiopia

  Firfir, also called fit-fit, is the classic breakfast of Ethiopia, also eaten in Eritrea.

• Kinche ቂንጨ · Main dish · Ethiopia

  Kinche, qinch'e in Amharic, is a porridge that English sources call a very common and cheap Ethiopian breakfast or supper.

• Gored gored ጎረድ ጎረድ · Main dish · Ethiopia

  Gored gored is a raw beef dish of Ethiopia, called gurguddaa in Oromo, and like kitfo it is widely popular and considered a national dish.

• Quanta ቋንጣ · Snack · Ethiopia

  Quanta, also spelled quwanta, is Ethiopian dried beef, an air-dried jerky made with traditional spices.

Food of Ethiopia

Dishes like Tibs in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Tibs:

• Oruk · Main dish · Hatay (Antakya), Türkiye

  Oruk is the Antakya version of kibbeh: a shell of fine bulgur and minced meat shaped into a long spindle, filled with minced meat, onion and walnuts, and baked or fried.

• Zhizhig-galnash жижиг-галнаш · Main dish · Chechnya, Russia

  Zhizhig-galnash is the Chechen national dish of boiled meat and dumplings.

• Halim · Main dish · Uzbekistan

  Halim is an old Uzbek dish of wheat and meat cooked for many hours into a thick porridge.

• Kuyrdak қуырдақ · Main dish · Kazakhstan

  Kuyrdak, quyrdaq in Kazakh, is a fry-up of the freshest parts of a newly slaughtered animal, made in Kazakhstan and across Central Asia and Mongolia; it is related to Turkish kavurma.