དཔུང་པ

Sherpa

Noun

དཔུང་པ (pungpa)

1. shoulder

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *pwaŋ (STEDT). Compare Chinese 膀.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tpuŋ.pa/
• Lhasa: /puŋ˥˥.pəˑ/, / puŋ˥˥.pa˥˨/
• Batang: /bõ⁵⁵ pa⁵⁵/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tpuŋ.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: bung^f-bac, bung^f-ba^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /puŋ˥˥.pəˑ/, / puŋ˥˥.pa˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /bõ⁵⁵ pa⁵⁵/

Noun

དཔུང་པ • (dpung pa)

1. (anatomy) shoulder
2. (anatomy) upper arm
3. power, strength

See also

• དཔུང་མགོ (dpung mgo)
• ཕྲག་པ (phrag pa)

References

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