ཚྭ

See also: ཚ and ཚི

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa.

Noun

ཚྭ (tshwa)

1. salt

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa.

Noun

ཚྭ (tshwa)

1. salt

References

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

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡sʰʷa/
• Lhasa: /t͡sʰa˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡sʰa˥˧/
• Dêgê: /t͡sʰa˥˧/
• Zêkog: /t͡sʰa/
• Bla-Brang: /t͡sʰa/
• Lahuli–Spiti: /tsʰá/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡sʰʷa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ca^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰa/
• Lahuli–Spiti
  • (Spiti) IPA^(key): /tsʰá/

Noun

ཚྭ • (tshwa)

1. salt

Derived terms

• བྲག་ཚྭ (brag tshwa, “rock salt”)
• ཚྭ་ཆུ (tshwa chu, “salt-water”)
• ཚྭ་ཁུ (tshwa khu)
• ཟེ་ཚྭ (ze tshwa)
• རྒྱམ་ཚྭ (rgyam tshwa)
• ལན་ཚྭ (lan tshwa)
• ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa, “quarried salt”)

References

• “ཚྭ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཚྭ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.