མར
Kurtöp edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mar. Cognates include Tibetan མར (mar) and Dzongkha མར (mar).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
མར (mar)
References edit
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 151
Tibetan edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mar (“gold; yellow; butter; oil”).
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*mar/
- Lhasa: /maː˩˨/
- Batang: /mɑ˩˧/
Noun edit
མར • (mar)
Etymology 2 edit
From the root མ (ma, “below”).
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*mar/
- Lhasa: /maː˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: maav
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /maː˩˨/
Adverb edit
མར • (mar)
Antonyms edit
- ཡར (yar, “upward”)
Etymology 3 edit
From མ (ma, “mother”) + ར (ra, “terminative case marker”).
Noun edit
མར • (mar)