མར

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mar. Cognates include Tibetan མར (mar) and Dzongkha མར (mar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə̀r/

Noun

མར (mar)

1. butter

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 151

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mar (“gold; yellow; butter; oil”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mar/
• Lhasa: /maː˩˨/
• Batang: /mɑ˩˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: maa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /maː˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /mɑ˩˧/

Noun

མར • (mar)

1. butter
2. (colloquial) oil

Etymology 2

From the root མ (ma, “below”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mar/
• Lhasa: /maː˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: maa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /maː˩˨/

Adverb

མར • (mar)

1. below, downward

Antonyms

• ཡར (yar, “upward”)

Etymology 3

From མ (ma, “mother”) + ར (ra, terminative case marker).

Noun

མར • (mar)

1. to, into or as a/the mother