ནུབ

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See also: ན་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip.

Pronunciation 1

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Batang: /nuʔ˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /nuʔ˧˩/
Zêkog: /nəp/
Bla-Brang: /nəp/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nu^w, nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˧˩/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nəp/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nəp/

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Noun

ནུབ • (nub)

west

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)

Pronunciation 2

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nup̚˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nup̚˩˧˨/

Verb

ནུབ • (nub) (nominal form ནུབ་པ)

(intransitive) to fall (gradually), to sink, to set
(intransitive) to decay, to decline

Conjugation

Conjugation of ནུབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ནུབ	nub
Future	ནུབ	nub
Past	ནུབ	nub
Imperative	ནུབ	nub

Derived terms

Causative: སྣུབ་པ (snub pa)

References

“ནུབ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“ནུབ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

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