གཞུ

Tibetan

གཞུ

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d/s-ləy. Compare Chinese 矢 (OC *hliʔ), Burmese လေး (le:, “bow”), S'gaw Karen ချံၣ် (khleè, “bow”), Naxi leemei (“longbow”), Jingpho kung-li (“bow”), Manipuri ꯂꯤꯔꯨꯡ (leeroong, “bow”), Limbu li (“bow”), Lepcha sali (“bow”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*gʑu/
Lhasa: /ɕu˩˨/
Batang: /ɣᴜ⁵³ /
Dêgê: /ɣu⁵³ /
Zêkog: /ɣʑə/, /ʑə/
Bla-Brang: /hʑə/
Arik: /ɣjə /
Lahuli–Spiti: /ʒu/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*gʑu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕu˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɣᴜ⁵³ /
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɣu⁵³ /
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɣʑə/, /ʑə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hʑə/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ɣjə /
Lahuli–Spiti
- (Spiti) IPA^(key): /ʒu/

Noun

གཞུ • (gzhu)

bow (weapon)
(architecture) bucket arch, used between the pillar and the beam

Verb

གཞུ • (gzhu) (nominal form གཞུ་བ)

hit, strike, knock, throw

Conjugation

Conjugation of གཞུ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	གཞུ	gzhu
Future	གཞུ	gzhu
Past	གཞུས	gzhus
Imperative	གཞུས	gzhus

Derived terms

References

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

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