ཇོ་ཇོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Believed to have originally been a general honorific; compare ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “mistress”) and the semantic development of ཐུ་བོ (thu bo).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ཇོ་ཇོ • (jo jo)

  1. older brother
    Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཕུ་བོ (phu bo), ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific), གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) (literary)
  2. older male cousin
  3. (term of address for a man) brother, sir, mister
    Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific)

Coordinate terms

  • མིང་པོ (ming po)

References

  1. ^ Paul K. Benedict (1942) “Tibetan and Chinese Kinship Terms”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 6, number 3/4, Harvard-Yenching Institute, pages 313-337
  • “ཇོ་ཇོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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