པི་ཝང

Tibetan

Etymology

From an uncertain source, perhaps Khotanese, with the same origin as the independently borrowed Chinese 琵琶 (pípá).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pi.waŋ/
• Lhasa: /pi˥˥.waŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pi.waŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: bi^f-wang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pi˥˥.waŋ˥˥/

Noun

པི་ཝང • (pi wang)

1. A kind of Tibetan two-stringed fiddle.