འདྲེ་ཤིག

Tibetan

Etymology

འདྲེ ('dre, “demon”) +‎ ཤིག (shig, “louse”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿdre.ɕik/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.ɕiː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿdre.ɕik/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhi^v-xii^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨.ɕiː˥˥/

Noun

འདྲེ་ཤིག • ('dre shig)

1. bedbug

References

• “འདྲེ་ཤིག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.