ས་བཀྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

ས (sa) +‎ བཀྲ (bkra)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sa.bkra/
• Lhasa: /sap̚˥˥.ʈ͡ʂaˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*sa.bkra/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sab^f-zha
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sap̚˥˥.ʈ͡ʂaˑ/

Noun

ས་བཀྲ • (sa bkra)

1. map

   ས་བཀྲ་དཔེ་དེབ

   sa bkra dpe deb

   book of maps

   ས་བཀྲ་ལེན་འགོད་བྱེད

   sa bkra len 'god byed

   to map, to draw up a map

2. auspicious site

References

• “ས་བཀྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.