ཉེ་བ
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Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီ (ni, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Old Tibetan: /*ȵe.ba/
- Lhasa: /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyev-wa
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/
Adjective
[edit]ཉེ་བ • (nye ba)
Derived terms
[edit]- ཉེ་ཁོར (nye khor)
References
[edit]- “ཉེ་བ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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