ཆར་པ

See also: ཆརཔ and ཆུར་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰar.pa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰaː˥˥.pa˥˥/
Batang: /t͡ɕʰa˥˥.ba˥˧/
Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰar.wa/
Arik: /t͡ɕʰar.wæ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰar.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qaa^f-ba^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰaː˥˥.pa˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˥˥.ba˥˧/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰar.wa/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰar.wæ/

Noun

ཆར་པ • (char pa)

rain

Derived terms

ཆར་དུས (char dus, “rainy season”)
ཆར་གདུགས (char gdugs)

References

“ཆར་པ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.