ཞོ་ཤ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཞོ (zho) +‎ ཤ (sha).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʑo.ɕa/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʑo.ɕa/ (reconstructed)

Noun

ཞོ་ཤ • (zho sha)

1. sustenance
2. strength, ability

   Synonyms: ནུས་པ (nus pa), སྟོབས (stobs)

3. fee, payment, wage

   Synonyms: གླ (gla), གླ་རྔན (gla rngan)

4. tax, tribute

   Synonym: དཔྱ་ཁྲལ (dpya khral)

5. Alternative form of ཟླ་གོར་ཞོ་ཤ (zla gor zho sha), the betel nut

   Synonyms: མཆེར་བ་ཞོག (mcher ba zhog), གླང་མིག (glang mig), ཤ་ལུ་ཀ (sha lu ka)

6. Alternative form of མཆིན་པ་ཞོ་ཤ (mchin pa zho sha), the matchbox bean (Entada phaseoloides)

   Synonym: བ་མཁལ་སྨུག་པོ (ba mkhal smug po)

7. Alternative form of སྙིང་ཞོ་ཤ (snying zho sha), the Japanese nutmeg yew (Torreya nucifera)

   Synonyms: ཨམ་བ་ལི (am ba li), བ་ཏ (ba ta)

References

• “ཞོ་ཤ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.