ཤར

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).

Verb

ཤར (shar)

1. to rise (as a celestial body)

References

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

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɕar/
• Lhasa: /ɕaː˥˥/
• Batang: /xha˥˧/
• Dêgê: /xha˥˧/
• Zêkog: /xhar/
• Bla-Brang: /xhar/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɕar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xaa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕaː˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /xha˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /xha˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /xhar/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /xhar/

Noun

ཤར • (shar)

1. east

Verb

ཤར • (shar) (nominal form ཤར་བ)

1. to rise (as a celestial body)

Derived terms

• ཤར་གླིང (shar gling, “Asia”)

See also

• (compass points)

ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)