ནུབ

See also: ན་བ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ནུབ (nub) and Tibetan ནུབ (nub).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nùp]

Noun

ནུབ (nup)

1. west

Verb

ནུབ (nup)

1. (intransitive) to be submerged

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 117
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip.

Pronunciation 1

• Old Tibetan: /*nup/
• Lhasa: /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
• Batang: /nuʔ˨˧˩/
• Dêgê: /nuʔ˧˩/
• Zêkog: /nəp/
• Bla-Brang: /nəp/

---

• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nu^w, nub^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˨˧˩/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˧˩/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nəp/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nəp/

Noun

ནུབ • (nub)

1. west

See also

compass points:  ^[edit]

ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)

Pronunciation 2

• Old Tibetan: /*nup/
• Lhasa: /nup̚˩˧˨/

---

• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nub^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nup̚˩˧˨/

Verb

ནུབ • (nub) (nominal form ནུབ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to fall (gradually), to sink, to set
2. (intransitive) to decay, to decline

Conjugation

Conjugation of ནུབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ནུབ	nub
Future	ནུབ	nub
Past	ནུབ	nub
Imperative	ནུབ	nub

Derived terms

• Causative: སྣུབ་པ (snub pa)

References

• “ནུབ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ནུབ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.