ཡུལ

Dzongkha

Alternative forms

• གཡུས (g.yus)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yː˩/

Noun

ཡུལ (yul)

1. village, country
2. destination

Tibetan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*jul/
• Lhasa: /jyː˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*jul/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yue^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /jyː˩˨/

Noun

ཡུལ • (yul)

1. place, area
2. field, domain
3. village, homeland
4. country, nation

Derived terms

• བལ་ཡུལ (bal yul, “Nepal”)
• འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul, “Bhutan”)
• སོག་ཡུལ (sog yul, “Mongolia”)
• དབྱིན་ཡུལ (dbyin yul, “England”)
• ཡུལ་སྐད (yul skad, “dialect”)

See also

• ས་ཆ (sa cha)
• ས་ཁུལ (sa khul)