ཆུ
Balti edit
Noun edit
ཆུ (chu)
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)
- water
- 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)
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)
References edit
- Lhakpa Doma Sherpa, Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka), Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak), Sherpa Conversation & Basic Words (2006), page 148
Sikkimese edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ཆུ (chu)
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 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”).
Pronunciation edit
- Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰu/
- Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
- Batang: /t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/
- Dêgê: /t͡ɕʰu˥˧/
- Gyaitang: /ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/
- Zêkog: /t͡ɕʰə/
- Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰə/
- Arik: /t͡ɕʰə/
- Maqu: /t͡ɕʰə/
- Ngawa: /t͡ɕʰə/
- Mdung-Nag: /ʈ͡ʂʰə/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: quf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
- Khams
- Amdo
Noun edit
Plain | ཆུ (chu) |
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Honorific | ཆབ (chab) |
ཆུ • (chu)
Derived terms edit
- ཁྱིལ་ཆུ (khyil chu, “puddle”)
- དངུལ་ཆུ (dngul chu, “quicksilver, mercury”)
- ཆུ་ལྒང (chu lgang, “blister”)
- ཆུ་སྒྲོམ (chu sgrom, “cistern”)
- ཆུ་ཆེན (chu chen, “river”)
- ཆུ་དོང (chu dong)
- ཆུ་སྣོད (chu snod, “jug”)
- ཆུ་བོ (chu bo, “river”)
- ཆུ་མིག (chu mig, “spring”)
- ཆུ་ཟོམ (chu zom, “bucket”)
- ཆུ་རག (chu rag, “dam”)
- ཆུ་ལོག (chu log, “flood”)
- ཆུ་སེར (chu ser, “lymph”)
- ཆུ་སྲིན (chu srin, “whale”)
- འཐོར་ཆུ ('thor chu, “shower”)
- བབས་ཆུ (babs chu, “waterfall”)
- སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)
- གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu, “river”)
- ཚེ་ཆུ (tshe chu)
- རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu, “Mekong”)
References edit
Zangskari edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).
Noun edit
ཆུ (chu)
References edit
- Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar