འཆུ

See also: འཆི་བ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Derived from ཆུ (chu, “water”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ju^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Verb

འཆུ • ('chu) (nominal form འཆུ་བ)

1. (transitive) to draw, take or bring water (from a well or a spring)

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཆུ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཆུ བཅུ	'chu bcu
Future	བཅུ གཅུ	bcu gcu
Past	བཅུས	bcus
Imperative	ཆུས བཅུས	chus bcus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰyː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: que^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰyː˥˨/

Verb

འཆུ • ('chu) (nominal form འཆུ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to be twisted, to be distorted, to become crooked
2. (intransitive) to lose appetite

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཆུ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཆུ འཆུས	'chu 'chus
Future	འཆུ འཆུས	'chu 'chus
Past	འཆུས	'chus
Imperative	འཆུས	'chus