འགྲོ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.

Verb

འགྲོ (dro)

1. to go

References

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

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵑɡro/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/

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

Verb

“to go”

Plain	འགྲོ ('gro)
Honorific	ཕེབས (phebs)

འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)

1. to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
2. to get, to get into, to enter
3. to find room in, to be contained in
4. to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
5. to be used for
6. to be acceptable (to the senses)

Conjugation

Conjugation of འགྲོ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འགྲོ	'gro
Future	འགྲོ	'gro
Past	ཕྱིན སོང འགྲོ (archaic) ཕྱིནད	phyin song 'gro phyind
Imperative	སོང	song

Note: the past སོང (song) is more typical of eastern dialects, whereas ཕྱིན (phyin) more of central dialects. The present/future form འགྲོ ('gro) is occasionally also used in the past tense in colloquial Lhasa Tibetan and the colloquial speech of the Tibetan exile community.

Derived terms

• འགྲོ་ས ('gro sa, “destination”)

See also

• འོང ('ong, “to come”)