འབྲུག་ཡུལ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon”) +‎ ཡུལ (yul, “country, village”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʈuk̚˩.yː˩/

Proper noun

འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul)

1. Bhutan (a country in South Asia, in the Himalayas)

   Synonym: (anti-nationalist) བོདཤ་ཐཱན (bodsh thān)

Tibetan

Etymology

འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder, dragon”) +‎ ཡུལ (yul, “land, country”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbruk.jul/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂu(k̚)ˀ˩˨.jyː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbruk.jul/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhug^v-yue^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu(k̚)ˀ˩˨.jyː˥˥/

Proper noun

འབྲུག་ཡུལ • ('brug yul)

1. Bhutan (a country in South Asia, in the Himalayas)