ཨ་མ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Tibetan ཨ་མ (a ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə́mə/

Noun

ཨ་མ ('ama) (genitive-ergative ཨ་མི, locative ཨ་མ་ན)

1. mother

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 231

Tibetan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʔa.ma/
• Lhasa: /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʔa.ma/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: a^f-ma^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/

Noun

ཨ་མ • (a ma)

1. a term of address to one's mother.

   Synonym: མ (ma)

References

• “ཨ་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.