ཟ

ཟ U+0F5F, ཟ TIBETAN LETTER ZA ← ཞ [U+0F5E] Tibetan འ → [U+0F60]

Translingual

Letter

ཟ

1. Tibetan letter za

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɑ/, [zɑ]

Letter

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ˥/, [sɑ˥]

Letter

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ˩/, [sɑ˩]

Verb

ཟ (za)

1. to eat
2. to bear fruit

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sej. Cognates include Dzongkha ཟ (za, “to bear fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zə̀/

Noun

ཟ (za)

1. fruit

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 181
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zə/, [zə]

Letter

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za/, [za]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཟ (za)

1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

Verb

ཟ (za)

1. to eat

References

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɐ/, [zɐ]

Letter

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*za/
• Lhasa: /sa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*za/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sa˥˥/

Letter

ཟ • (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dza. Cognate with Chinese 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*za/
• Lhasa: /sa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*za/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sa˩˨/

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

1. (transitive) to eat, to have food

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཟ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཟ	za
Future	བཟའ	bza'
Past	བཟས ཟོས	bzas zos
Imperative	ཟོ ཟོས	zo zos

Related terms

• ཟན (zan)
• ཟས (zas)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*za/
• Lhasa: /sa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*za/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sa˩˨/

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to itch, to become itchy

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཟ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཟ	za
Future	ཟ	za
Past	ཟ	za
Imperative	ཟ	za

Derived terms

• ཟ་ཕྲུག་ལང (za phrug lang)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*za/
• Lhasa: /sa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*za/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sa˩˨/

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to appear, to arise

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཟ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཟ འཛའ	za 'dza'
Future	ཟ བཟའ	za bza'
Past	ཟོས བཟས	zos bzas
Imperative	ཟོ	zo