ནུབ

See also: ན་བ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ནུབ (nub) and Tibetan ནུབ (nub).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nùp]

Noun

ནུབ (nup)

west

Verb

ནུབ (nup)

(intransitive) to be submerged

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 117
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip.

Pronunciation 1

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Batang: /nuʔ˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /nuʔ˧˩/
Zêkog: /nəp/
Bla-Brang: /nəp/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nu^w, nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˧˩/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nəp/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nəp/

Noun

ནུབ • (nub)

west

See also

compass points: ^[edit]

ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)

Pronunciation 2

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nup̚˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nup̚˩˧˨/

Verb

ནུབ • (nub) (nominal form ནུབ་པ)

(intransitive) to fall (gradually), to sink, to set
(intransitive) to decay, to decline

Conjugation

present	ནུབ (nub)
future	ནུབ (nub)
past	ནུབ (nub)
imperative	ནུབ (nub)

Derived terms

Causative: སྣུབ་པ (snub pa)

References

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