བྱི་རུག

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲi.ruk/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰi˩˨.ʐu(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲi.ruk/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qi^v-rug^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰi˩˨.ʐu(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

བྱི་རུག • (byi rug)

1. various plants of the mint family, primarily Elsholtzia, and also Nepeta, Schizonepeta and Mentha, used in traditional medicine

Derived terms

• བྱི་རུག་ནག་པོ (byi rug nag po)
• བྱི་རུག་པ (byi rug pa)
• བྱི་རུག་སྨུག་པོ (byi rug smug po)
• བྱི་རུག་སེར་པོ (byi rug ser po)

References

• “བྱི་རུག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.