གྲུ

Dzongkha

Noun

གྲུ (gru)

ferry

Tibetan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Are these two really senses of a single word, or are they homographs from different sources?”)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɡru/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡru/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Noun

གྲུ • (gru)

boat, ship
angle, corner

Derived terms

གྲུ་མཁན (gru mkhan, “ferryman”)
གྲུ་མོ (gru mo, “elbow”)
གྲུ་བཞི (gru bzhi, “square”)
གྲུ་གཟིངས (gru gzings, “vessel”)
གྲུ་ཤན (gru shan, “ferry”)
གྲུ་གསུམ (gru gsum, “triangle”)
གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru, “airplane”)
རྣམ་གྲུ (rnam gru, “constellation Revati”)
ཚོང་གྲུ (tshong gru)
ཤིང་གྲུ (shing gru)

References

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