སྦྲུལ

See also: སྤྲུལ and སྤྲེལ

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”).

Noun

སྦྲུལ (sbrul)

1. snake

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zbrul/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˩˨/
• Batang: /ɖ͡ʐy˥˥/
• Dêgê: /ru˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /ʑy˥˧/
• Zêkog: /ru/
• Bla-Brang: /ru/
• Arik: /rbu/
• Maqu: /wu/
• Mdung-Nag: /ru/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zbrul/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhue^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɖ͡ʐy˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ru˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ʑy˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ru/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ru/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rbu/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /wu/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ru/

Noun

སྦྲུལ • (sbrul)

1. snake

Derived terms

• ཆུ་སྦྲུལ (chu sbrul)
• སྦྲུལ་རྒྱན (sbrul rgyan)
• སྦྲུལ་ཉ (sbrul nya)
• སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu)

References

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