འབྲུག

See also: འབྲོག

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʈuk̚˩/

Noun

འབྲུག ('brug)

1. dragon

Proper noun

འབྲུག ('brug)

1. (slang) Bhutan

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”).

Noun

འབྲུག ('brug)

1. dragon

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbruk/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂu˩˧˨/
• Batang: /nɖ͡ʐuʔ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /nɖ͡ʐuʔ˥˧/
• Zêkog: /mɖ͡ʐək/
• Bla-Brang: /nɖ͡ʐək/
• Arik: /nɖ͡ʐuk/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbruk/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhu^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐuʔ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐuʔ˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /mɖ͡ʐək/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐək/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐuk/

Noun

འབྲུག • ('brug)

1. dragon
2. thunder

Derived terms

• འབྲུག་ཡུལ ('brug yul)
• འབྲུག་སྐད ('brug skad)
• འབྲུག་པ ('brug pa)
• འབྲུག་སྒྲ ('brug sgra)
• འབྲུག་མིག ('brug mig)
• འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po)

References

• “འབྲུག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “འབྲུག” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.