བྲེ
Kurtöp
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Tibetan བྲེ (bre) and Dzongkha བྲེ (bre). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]བྲེ (bre)
- measuring cup (mug for measuring grain)
- A traditional unit of volume, equal to the volume of a measuring cup.
References
[edit]- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], pages 108, 339
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 147