ཇ

See also: ཛ

ཇ	U+0F47, ཇ TIBETAN LETTER JA

[unassigned: U+0F48]

← ཆ
[U+0F46]

Tibetan

ཉ →
[U+0F49]

Translingual

Letter

ཇ

Tibetan letter ja

Balti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə/, [d͡ʒʌ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The tenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/, [t͡ɕɑ]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɟə̀/

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 54
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Sherpa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa/, [d͡ʒa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The thirteenth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐ/, [d͡ʑɐ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ • (ja)

letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC drae), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qa^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

Noun

“tea”
Plain	ཇ (ja)
Honorific	གསོལ་ཇ (gsol ja)

ཇ • (ja)

tea

Derived terms

ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)
ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs, “tea cosy”)
ཇ་ཀོབ་པི (ja kob pi, “coffee”)
འཚིག་ཇ ('tshig ja, “coffee”)

Descendants

→ Kurtöp: ཇ (ja)

Zangskari

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar