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བྲང

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Kurtöp

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བྲང་

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-braŋ. Cognates include Tibetan སྦྲང (sbrang, bee).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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བྲང (brang)

  1. fly

References

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  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], page 112
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 146

Tibetan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/g-raŋ (chest).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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བྲང (brang)

  1. chest; breast
    Synonyms: (Standard Tibetan) བྲང་ཁོག (brang khog), (Amdo Tibetan) བྲང་ཁ (brang kha)
  2. dwelling; camp

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.