སྨྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-br(w)a(ŋ/k) (“to speak”); cognate with Burmese ပြော (prau:, “to say, utter”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zmra/
• Lhasa: /ma˥˥/

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

Verb

སྨྲ • (smra) (nominal form སྨྲ་བ)

1. (transitive, not used alone in Lhasa Tibetan) to say, to utter, to express, to expound

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྨྲ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྨྲ སྨྲོས སྨར	smra smros smar
Future	སྨྲ	smra
Past	སྨྲས	smras
Imperative	སྨྲོས	smros