ཚ་ལུ་མ

Tibetan

ཚ་ལུ་མ།

Alternative forms

• ཚ་ལུམ (tsha lum, “sweet orange grown in Sikkim”)

Etymology

ཚ་ལུ (tsha lu, “red”) +‎ མ (ma, “noun suffix”). Related to མཚལ (mtshal, “vermillion pigment”), མཚལ་ལུ (mtshal lu, “*red”) (Zhang, 2009).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡sʰa.lu.ma/
• Lhasa: /t͡sʰə˥˥.lu˥˥.məˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡sʰa.lu.ma/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: cac^f-lu^f-mac
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰə˥˥.lu˥˥.məˑ/

Noun

ཚ་ལུ་མ • (tsha lu ma)

1. orange, tangerine

Derived terms

• ཚ་ལུ་མའི་དྲི (tsha lu ma'i dri)