སོ

See also: ས and སུ

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

Noun

སོ (so)

1. tooth

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*so/
• Lhasa: /so˥˥/

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

Noun

“tooth”

Plain	སོ (so)
Honorific	ཚེམས (tshems)

སོ • (so)

1. tooth
2. blade

Derived terms

• སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)
• སོ་ཁྲུ (so khru, “toothbrush”)
• སོ་ཤིང (so shing, “toothpick”)
• སོ་སྐུད (so skud, “dental floss”)
• སོ་སྨན (so sman, “toothpaste”)

See also

• མཆེ་བ (mche ba, “fang”)