མཐའ

Tibetan

Etymology

Tournadre & Suzuki (2023) compare this to མཐེ་བོ (mthe bo, “thumb”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mtʰa(ɣ)/
• Lhasa: /tʰa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mtʰa(ɣ)/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ta^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰa˥˥/

Noun

མཐའ • (mtha')

1. edge, fringe, border, extremity, limit, end

   Synonyms: སྣེ (sne), མཇུག (mjug)

   མཐའ་མེད་པའི་ཚེ་སྲོག ― mtha' med pa'i tshe srog ― eternal life (literally, “life without end”)

Derived terms

• མཐའ་མཇུག (mtha' mjug)

References

• “མཐའ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.