འཇིབ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ts(j)up ~ m-ts(j)ip.

Verb

འཇིབ (jip)

1. to suck

References

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

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ts(j)up ~ m-ts(j)ip.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿd͡ʑip/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕip̚˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿd͡ʑip/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jib^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕip̚˩˧˨/

Verb

འཇིབ • ('jib) (nominal form འཇིབ་པ)

1. (transitive) to suck with lips, to draw
2. (transitive) to taste, to relish

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཇིབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཇིབ འཇིབས འཇིག	'jib 'jibs 'jig
Future	གཞིབ བཞིབ	gzhib bzhib
Past	གཞིབས བཞིབས བཞིབ	gzhibs bzhibs bzhib
Imperative	འཇིབས ཇིབས	'jibs jibs

Derived terms

• འཇིབ་རུ ('jib ru, “dummy, pacifier”)