དགྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-gra (“stranger/enemy”), whence Chinese 旅 (OC *ɡ·raʔ), (STEDT)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*dɡra/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂa˩˨/
Batang: /dʐa⁵⁵/
Dêgê: /dʐa⁵³/
Bla-Brang: /hdʑa/
Arik: /ɣdʑa/
Lahuli–Spiti: /ɖá/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*dɡra/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zha^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /dʐa⁵⁵/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /dʐa⁵³/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hdʑa/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ɣdʑa/
Lahuli–Spiti
- (Spiti) IPA^(key): /ɖá/

Noun

དགྲ • (dgra)

foe, enemy

Derived terms

དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ (dgra bcom pa)
དགྲ་གཉེན (dgra gnyen)
དགྲ་ཟོན (dgra zon)

References

“དགྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“དགྲ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.