རྔུལ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-(k/ŋ)rul (“sweat”). Compare Chinese 汗 (OC *kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns, “sweat”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rŋul/
• Lhasa: /ŋyː˥˥/
• Batang: /ŋy˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ŋy˥˥/
• Zêkog: /rŋu/
• Bla-Brang: /ŋ̊əl/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rŋul/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ngue^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋyː˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ŋy˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ŋy˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rŋu/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ŋ̊əl/

Noun

རྔུལ • (rngul)

1. sweat

Derived terms

• རྔུལ་ཆུ (rngul chu)
• རྔུལ་ནག (rngul nag)