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Kurtöp
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk. Cognates include Tibetan ཕུག (phug).
Noun
ཕོ (pho) (genitive-ergative ཕོ་གི)
- hole
- cave
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pu. Cognates include Tibetan ཕོ (pho).
Adjective
ཕོ (pho)
- male
References
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis), page 107
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 139
Tibetan
Pronunciation
Noun
ཕོ • (pho)
- male, man, gentleman, masculine
- father, paternal
- stomach, reticulum, second stomach of ruminant
- transmigration
Derived terms
- ཕོ་ཧྲང (pho hrang, “bachelor”)