ཟ

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ཟ U+0F5F, ཟ
TIBETAN LETTER ZA
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 		Tibetan འ →

Translingual

Letter

ཟ

  1. Tibetan letter za

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ཟ (za)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

ཟ (za)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

Pronunciation

Verb

ཟ (za)

  1. to eat
  2. to bear fruit

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sej. Cognates include Dzongkha ཟ (za, “to bear fruit”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཟ (za)

  1. fruit

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 181
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

Letter

ཟ (za)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཟ (za)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

Verb

ཟ (za)

  1. to eat

References

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

Letter

ཟ (za)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

ཟ • (za)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dza. Cognate with Chinese 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ).

Pronunciation

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

  1. (transitive) to eat, to have food
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཟ
Tense/Mood Form Wylie
Present ཟ za
Future བཟའ bza'
Past བཟས
ཟོས		 bzas
zos
Imperative ཟོ
ཟོས		 zo
zos
Related terms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to itch, to become itchy
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཟ
Tense/Mood Form Wylie
Present ཟ za
Future ཟ za
Past ཟ za
Imperative ཟ za
Derived terms

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Verb

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to appear, to arise
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཟ
Tense/Mood Form Wylie
Present ཟ
འཛའ		 za
'dza'
Future ཟ
བཟའ		 za
bza'
Past ཟོས
བཟས		 zos
bzas
Imperative ཟོ zo
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