ཕོ

See also:

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʰó]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk. Cognates include Tibetan ཕུག (phug​).

Noun

ཕོ (pho)

  1. hole
  2. cave

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pu. Cognates include Tibetan ཕོ (pho).

Adjective

ཕོ (pho)

  1. male

References

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], page 107
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 139

Tibetan

Pronunciation


Noun

ཕོ • (pho)

  1. male, man, gentleman, masculine
  2. father, paternal
  3. stomach, reticulum, second stomach of ruminant
  4. transmigration

Derived terms