དུག

See also: དགུ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duk ~ tuk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪úk/

Noun

དུག (thuk)

1. poison

References

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

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duk ~ tuk.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*duk/
• Lhasa: /tʰu˩˧˨/
• Batang: /tuʔ˨˧˩/
• Dêgê: /tuʔ˧˩/
• Zêkog: /tuk/
• Bla-Brang: /tək/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*duk/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tu^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /tuʔ˨˧˩/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tuʔ˧˩/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /tuk/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tək/

Noun

དུག • (dug)

1. poison, toxin

Derived terms

• དུག་སྦྲང (dug sbrang, “mosquito”)
• ལ་དུག (la dug, “altitude sickness”)
• སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)