གླ་བ
Tibetan
Etymology
གླ (gla) + བ (ba). Compare Lepcha ᰠᰓᰪᰲ (sabur, “musk deer”), Nuosu ꇍꀮ (lep bu).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*gla.ba/
- Lhasa: /la˥˥.waˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*gla.ba/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: laf-wa
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /la˥˥.waˑ/
Noun
གླ་བ • (gla ba)
Synonyms
- སྐུ་བདེ་རིགས (sku bde rigs)
References
- “གླ་བ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 209. →ISBN