རླབས

See also: རབས

Tibetan

Etymology

Matisoff sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-labs (“wave”), listing Chinese 汰 (OC *tʰaːds, “great wave”) as a comparandum.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rlaps/
• Lhasa: /ləp̚˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rlaps/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lacb^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ləp̚˥˨/

Noun

རླབས • (rlabs)

1. wave, billow