གྲུ

Dzongkha edit

Noun edit

གྲུ (gru)

ferry

Tibetan edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Are these two really senses of a single word, or are they homographs from different sources?”)

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*ɡru/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡru/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Noun edit

གྲུ • (gru)

boat, ship
angle, corner

Derived terms edit

རྣམ་གྲུ (rnam gru, “constellation Revati”)
གྲུ་གཟིངས (gru gzings)
གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru, “airplane”)
ཚོང་གྲུ (tshong gru)
གྲུ་མོ (gru mo, “elbow”)
གྲུ་ཤན (gru shan, “ferry”)
ཤིང་གྲུ (shing gru)
གྲུ་གསུམ (gru gsum, “triangle”)
གྲུ་བཞི (gru bzhi, “square”)

References edit

“གྲུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“གྲུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.