བཞི

Balti

Etymology

Cognate to Tibetan བཞི (bzhi) and Dzongkha བཞི (bzhi)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʒi/, [bʒi]

Numeral

བཞི (bzhi)

1. four, 4

Dzongkha

Dzongkha cardinal numbers

<  ༣	༤	༥  >
Cardinal : བཞི (bzhi)     Ordinal : བཞི་པ (bzhi pa)     Adverbial : ཚར་བཞི (tshar bzhi)     Multiplier : བཞི་བལྟབ (bzhi bltab)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʑi˩/
  • Homophone: གཞི (gzhi)
• IPA^(key): /pt͡ɕi˩/
  • Homophone: སྦྱིས (sbyis)

Numeral

བཞི (bzhi)

1. four (4)

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj.

Numeral

བཞི (bzhi) (Devanagari spelling बश़ि)

1. four

References

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

Tibetan

Tibetan numbers ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: བཞི (bzhi)     Ordinal: བཞི་པ (bzhi pa)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʑi/
• Lhasa: /ɕi˩˨/
• Batang: /ɣɪ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ʑe˧˩/
• Gyaitang: /ʐə˩˧/
• Zêkog: /wʑə/
• Bla-Brang: /hʑə/
• Arik: /wʑə/
• Maqu: /wʑə/
• Mdung-Nag: /ʐz̩ʷ/
• Lahuli–Spiti: /ʒi/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʑi/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xi^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕi˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɣɪ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʑe˧˩/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ʐə˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /wʑə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hʑə/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /wʑə/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /wʑə/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʐz̩ʷ/
• Lahuli–Spiti
  • (Spiti) IPA^(key): /ʒi/

Numeral

བཞི • (bzhi)

1. four

Derived terms

• རྒྱན་བཞི (rgyan bzhi)

References

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