འབྲུ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(m/b)rəw (“grain, seed, lineage”) (STEDT). Compare Southern Qiang [Term?] (/ʁə̀/, “wheat, barley”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed, type, lineage”), Western Tamang [script needed] ('pluh, “seed”); potential Chinese comparanda include 物 (OC *mɯd), 苗 (OC *mrew) and 麰 (OC *mu). (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbru/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂu˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbru/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhu^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu˩˨/

Noun

འབྲུ • ('bru)

1. barley
2. grain

Derived terms

• འབྲུ་ཁང ('bru khang)
• འབྲུ་ཁལ ('bru khal)
• འབྲུ་ཆར ('bru char)
• འབྲུ་འཐག་པ ('bru 'thag pa)
• འབྲུ་འདེད ('bru 'ded)
• འབྲུ་ལྤགས ('bru lpags)
• འབྲུ་མར ('bru mar)
• འབྲུ་ཟུན ('bru zun)

See also

• ནས (nas)

References

• “འབྲུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. →ISBN