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Translingual
Letter
ས
- Tibetan letter sa
Balti
Pronunciation
Letter
ས (sa)
- The thirty-sixth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
Letter
ས (sa)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet
Kurtöp
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sa-j. Cognates include Tibetan ས (sa) and Dzongkha ས (sa).
Pronunciation
Noun
ས (sa) (genitive-ergative སའི, locative ས་ཀོ or ས་ན)
- earth
- land
- place
- soil
References
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis), page 124
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 220
Ladakhi
Pronunciation
Letter
ས (sa)
- The thirty-sixth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet
Sherpa
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Letter
ས (sa)
- The thirty-third letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognates include Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), Tibetan སོ (so).
Noun
ས (sa) (Devanagari spelling स)
- tooth
Sikkimese
Pronunciation
Letter
ས (sa)
- The thirty-second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (“earth, ground, soil”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ས • (sa)
- earth, land, soil, ground
Derived terms