གཞོང་བུ

Tibetan

Etymology

གཞོང (gzhong) +‎ བུ (bu).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*gʑoŋ.bu/
• Lhasa: /ɕoŋ˩˨.puˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gʑoŋ.bu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xong^v-bu
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕoŋ˩˨.puˑ/

Noun

གཞོང་བུ • (gzhong bu)

1. small basin or trough

References

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