འབྲི

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: chi^v, zhi^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

1. (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབྲི

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབྲི འདྲི བྲི	'bri 'dri bri
Future	བྲི འབྲི	bri 'bri
Past	བྲིས	bris
Imperative	བྲིས ཕྲིས རིས	bris phris ris

Derived terms

• དག་ཆ་བྲིས (dag cha bris)
• རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris)

Etymology 2

Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

1. (intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབྲི

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབྲི བྲི	'bri bri
Future	འབྲི བྲི	'bri bri
Past	བྲི	bri
Imperative	བྲི	bri

Etymology 3

Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rə) > lí.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
• Lhasa: /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: bi^v, zhi^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Noun

འབྲི • ('bri)

1. female yak

Coordinate terms

• གཡག (g.yag, “male yak”)

Derived terms

• འབྲི་མོ ('bri mo)