རྟ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rta.

Noun

རྟ (rta)

1. horse

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rta.

Noun

རྟ (rta)

1. horse

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rta.

Noun

རྟ (rta) (Devanagari spelling र्त)

1. horse

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Katkandu 2009

Tibetan

“horse”

Plain	རྟ (rta)
Honorific	ཆིབས (chibs)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rta.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rta/
• Lhasa: /ta˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rta/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: da^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ta˥˥/

Noun

རྟ • (rta)

1. horse
2. melody (for words)

Synonyms

• རྨང (rmang) (archaic)

Derived terms

• རྟ་སྒྲོ (rta sgro, “saddlebag”)
• རྟ་ལྕག (rta lcag, “whip”)
• རྟ་ཁེབས (rta khebs, “horse blanket”)

References

• “རྟ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “རྟ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.