མོ་ཊ

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from English motor.

Pronunciation

• Lhasa: /mo˩˨.ʈ͡ʂa˥˨/

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• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: mo^v-zha^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mo˩˨.ʈ͡ʂa˥˨/

Noun

མོ་ཊ • (mo ṭa)

1. car

Derived terms

• གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ (gangs shur mo ṭa, “snowmobile”)
• འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་མོ་ཊ ('grul skyel mo ṭa)
• མོ་ཊ་ཊག (mo ṭa ṭag, “truck”)
• མོ་ཊའི་ཨང་གྲངས་ལྕགས་ལེབ (mo ṭa'i ang grangs lcags leb, “licence plate”)