ལྟབ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/l-t(j)ap (“to fold; to repeat; to pile up; layer”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ltap/
• Lhasa: /təp̚˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ltap/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: dacb^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /təp̚˥˨/

Verb

ལྟབ • (ltab) (nominal form ལྟབ་པ)

1. to fold or gather up
2. to lay or put together

Conjugation

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Related terms

• ལྟབ་མ (ltab ma, “fold, plait, crease”)
• ལྟབ་གྲི (ltab gri, “clasp knife”)

References

• Heinrich August Jäschke, A Tibetan-English Dictionary, page 228