དགྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-gra (“stranger/enemy”), whence Chinese 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ), (STEDT)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*dɡra/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂa˩˨/
• Batang: /dʐa⁵⁵/
• Dêgê: /dʐa⁵³/
• Bla-Brang: /hdʑa/
• Arik: /ɣdʑa/
• Lahuli–Spiti: /ɖá/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*dɡra/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zha^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /dʐa⁵⁵/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /dʐa⁵³/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hdʑa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /ɣdʑa/
• Lahuli–Spiti
  • (Spiti) IPA^(key): /ɖá/

Noun

དགྲ • (dgra)

1. foe, enemy

Derived terms

• དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ (dgra bcom pa)
• དགྲ་གཉེན (dgra gnyen)
• དགྲ་ཟོན (dgra zon)

 

References

• “དགྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.