ཆར་པ

See also: ཆརཔ and ཆུར་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰar.pa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰaː˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡ɕʰa˥˥.ba˥˧/
• Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰar.wa/
• Arik: /t͡ɕʰar.wæ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰar.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qaa^f-ba^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰaː˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˥˥.ba˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰar.wa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰar.wæ/

Noun

ཆར་པ • (char pa)

1. rain

Derived terms

• ཆར་དུས (char dus, “rainy season”)
• ཆར་གདུགས (char gdugs)

References

• “ཆར་པ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.