གཞས

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(j)a-j/s/t (“laugh”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*gʑas/
• Lhasa: /ɕɛː˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*gʑas/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xae^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕɛː˩˧˨/

Noun

གཞས • (gzhas)

1. song
2. play, joke

Derived terms

• རོལ་གཞས (rol gzhas, “music”)
• གཞས་བཏང (gzhas btang, “to sing”)