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Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).
Pronunciation
Verb
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
Conjugation
Conjugation of འབྲི
| Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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| Present
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འབྲི
འདྲི
བྲི |
'bri
'dri
bri
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| Future
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བྲི
འབྲི |
bri
'bri
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| Past
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བྲིས |
bris
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| Imperative
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བྲིས
ཕྲིས
རིས |
bris
phris
ris
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).
Pronunciation
Verb
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane
Conjugation
Conjugation of འབྲི
| Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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| Present
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འབྲི
བྲི |
'bri
bri
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| Future
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འབྲི
བྲི |
'bri
bri
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| Past
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བྲི |
bri
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| Imperative
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བྲི |
bri
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Etymology 3
Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rə) > lí.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
འབྲི • ('bri)
- female yak
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
References
- ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 348