ཉེ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nəj(ʔ) (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီ (ni, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ཉེ་བ • (nye ba)

  1. near, close, intimate

Derived terms

  • ཉེ་ཁོར (nye khor)

References

  • “ཉེ་བ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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