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Translingual
Letter
ཇ
- Tibetan letter ja
Balti
Pronunciation
Letter
ཇ (ja)
- The tenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Letter
ཇ (ja)
- The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja).
Noun
ཇ (ja)
- tea
References
- Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010
Kurtöp
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).
Pronunciation
Noun
ཇ (ja)
- tea
References
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 54
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32
Sherpa
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Letter
ཇ (ja)
- The thirteenth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).
Noun
ཇ (ja)
- tea
References
- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009
Sikkimese
Pronunciation
Letter
ཇ (ja)
- The seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet
Tibetan
Etymology 1
Letter
ཇ • (ja)
- letter ja of the Tibetan abugida
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC drae), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.
Pronunciation
Noun
“tea”
Plain
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ཇ (ja)
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Honorific
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གསོལ་ཇ (gsol ja)
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ཇ • (ja)
- tea
Derived terms
Descendants
Zangskari
Noun
ཇ (ja)
- tea
References
- Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar