སྤྲུལ

See also: སྤྲེལ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare perhaps Old Chinese 變 (OC *prons, “to change”), whence 變態／变态 (biàntài, “to metamorphose, be abnormal”) and thus English hentai.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sprul/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*sprul/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhue^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥/

Verb

སྤྲུལ • (sprul) (nominal form སྤྲུལ་བ)

1. (intransitive or transitive) to appear to change, to transform oneself, to cause illusions, to alter an object by magic

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྤྲུལ (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྤྲུལ	sprul
Future	སྤྲུལ	sprul
Past	སྤྲུལ	sprul
Imperative	སྤྲུལ	sprul

Conjugation of སྤྲུལ (Old Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྤྲུལ	sprul
Future	སྤྲུལ	sprul
Past	སྤྲུལད	spruld
Imperative	སྤྲུལད	spruld

Derived terms

• སྤྲུལ་སྐུ (sprul sku, “tulku”)
• སྤྲུལ་པ (sprul pa, “tulpa”)