སེ་བ

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*se.ba/
• Lhasa: /se˥˥.waˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*se.ba/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: se^f-wa
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /se˥˥.waˑ/

Noun

སེ་བ • (se ba)

1. Rosa sericea, the silky rose, used in Tibetan medicine
2. a unit for measuring gold and currency (equivalent to one-hundredth of a ཞོ (zho))

References

• “སེ་བ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 1126. →ISBN