ཨ་མྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit आम्र (āmra, “mango”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʔa.mra/
• Lhasa: /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
• Batang: /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/
• Dêgê: /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʔa.mra/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: a^f-ma^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/

Noun

ཨ་མྲ • (a mra)

1. persimmon, Diospyros kaki

   Synonyms: འབྲ་གོ ('bra go), ཨ་མྲའི་ནོར་བུ (a mra'i nor bu)

2. mango

References

• “ཨ་མྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.