ཤ

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ཤ U+0F64, ཤ
TIBETAN LETTER SHA
← ལ
 		Tibetan ཥ →

Translingual

Letter

ཤ

  1. Tibetan letter sha

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ཤ (sha)

  1. The thirty-fourth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

ཤ (sha)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Noun

ཤ (sha)

  1. meat

References

  • Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n. Cognates include Tibetan ཤ (sha), Dzongkha ཤ (sha) and Mandarin 腊 (xī).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཤ (sha)

  1. meat

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 215
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

Letter

ཤ (sha)

  1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཤ (sha)

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Noun

ཤ (sha) (Devanagari spelling श)

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

Letter

ཤ (sha)

  1. The thirty-first letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Pronunciation

Noun

“meat”
Plain ཤ (sha)
Honorific གསོལ་དཀྲུམ (gsol dkrum)

ཤ • (sha)

  1. meat
  2. flesh

References

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