སྦྱོར

See also: སྒྱུར་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

Causative of འབྱོར ('byor, “to adhere, stick to”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bjar ~ pjar (“to affix, plait”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zbʲor/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕaː˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zbʲor/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jaa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕaː˩˨/

Verb

སྦྱོར • (sbyor) (nominal form སྦྱོར་བ)

1. (transitive) to link, to join, to connect
2. (transitive) to affix, to attach, to apply
3. (transitive) to establish
4. (transitive) to conduct, to behave
5. (transitive) to practice, to meditate
6. (transitive) to copulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྦྱོར (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྦྱོར	sbyor
Future	སྦྱར	sbyar
Past	སྦྱར	sbyar
Imperative	སྦྱོར	sbyor

Conjugation of སྦྱོར (Old Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྦྱོར	sbyor
Future	སྦྱར	sbyar
Past	སྦྱརད	sbyard
Imperative	སྦྱོརད	sbyord

Derived terms

• སྦྱོར་ཀློག (sbyor klog)
• སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་རིག་པ (sgra sbyor rig pa, “phonology”)