ཇ

Translingual

Letter

ཇ

1. Tibetan letter ja

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə/,

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The tenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/,

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟə̀/

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. 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

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa/,

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. 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)

1. tea

References

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐ/,

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ • (ja)

1. letter ja of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC drae), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Pronunciation

Noun

ཇ • (ja)

1. tea

Derived terms

• ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)
• ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs, “tea cosy”)
• ཇ་ཀོབ་པི (ja kob pi, “coffee”)
• འཚིག་ཇ ('tshig ja, “coffee”)

Descendants

• → Kurtöp: ཇ (ja)

Zangskari

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar