See also: ཆཱོ, , ཚི, , and ཚོ

Balti edit

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu)

  1. Tibetan-script spelling of چھو (water)

References edit

  • Peter C. Backstrom, and Carla F. Radloff Languages of northern areas: Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2 (1992; SIL) (notes that this form is used in all dialect areas)
  • R. K. Sprigg, Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary: chu

Dzongkha edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. urine
    Synonym: ཆབ་གསང་བསྡུསཔ (chab gsang bsdusp)

References edit

Ladakhi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. river

References edit

  • August Hermann Francke, A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga
  • Bettina Zeisler, Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

Sherpa edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu) (Devanagari spelling छ्यु)

  1. water

References edit

Sikkimese edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water

References edit

  • Juha Yliniemi, A Descriptive Grammar of Denjongke (Sikkimese Bhutia). (2021)

Tibetan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid). Compare Chinese (dǒu, “ladle”), (zhù, “to pour”).

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

“water”
Plain ཆུ (chu)
Honorific ཆབ (chab)

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. river

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • ཆུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • ཆུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

Zangskari edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Noun edit

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water

References edit

  • Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar