ཉི་མ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) (“sun, day”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nji˩.mɑ˩/

Adverb

ཉི་མ (nyi ma)

(in the) afternoon

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k).

Noun

ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)

sun
day

Proper noun

ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)

a unisex given name, Nyima

References

Nicolas Tournadre, Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Gyurme Chodrak, Guillaume Oisel (2009) “ཉི་མ”, in Sherpa-English and English Sherpa Dictionary […], Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, →ISBN, page 84

Tibetan

Etymology

ཉི (nyi) is from Proto-Bodish *ni, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) (“sun, day”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ȵi.ma/
Lhasa: /ȵi˩˨.məˑ/
Batang: /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
Dêgê: /ȵi˩˧.ma˥˧/
Gyaitang: /nə˥˧.wã˥˥/
Zêkog: /ȵə.ma/
Bla-Brang: /ȵə.ma/
Arik: /ȵə.mæ/
Maqu: /ȵə.ma/
Ngawa: /ɳə.ma/
Mdung-Nag: /ȵə.ma/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ȵi.ma/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyi^v-mac
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵi˩˨.məˑ/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵi˩˧.ma˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /nə˥˧.wã˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵə.mæ/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
- (Ngawa) IPA^(key): /ɳə.ma/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/

Noun

ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)

sun
day
ellipsis of གཟའ་ཉི་མ (gza' nyi ma, “Sunday”)

Derived terms

ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag, “solstice”)
ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཤུགས (nyi ma'i 'od shugs, “solar power”)

Descendants

→ Chinese: 尼瑪 / 尼玛 (Nímǎ)
→ Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠮ᠎ᠠ (nim-a) / ням (njam)

Proper noun

ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)

Nyima (a county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
a unisex given name, Nyima