ཇ་སྲུབ་མ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• ཇ་སྲིབ་མ (ja srib ma)
• ཇ་སྲུས་མ (ja srus ma)
• ཇ་བསྲུབས་མ (ja bsrubs ma)

Etymology

ཇ་སྲུབ (ja srub, “to churn or mix tea”) +‎ མ (ma, “nominalisation suffix”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑa.srup.ma/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨ syː˥˥.mə˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑa.srup.ma/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qa^v sue^f-mac^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨ syː˥˥.mə˥˥/

Noun

ཇ་སྲུབ་མ • (ja srub ma)

1. butter tea (traditional Tibetan drink made from tea leaves, yak butter, water and salt)