ཞོ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ཞོ (zho) and Tibetan ཞོ (zho).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [çò]

Noun

ཞོ (zho)

  1. yoghurt

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 180

Tibetan

Etymology

Nominal form of འཇོ ('jo, “to milk”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzy(ə/o)w (STEDT). Originally meant milk in Old Tibetan, which is preserved in Rongdrak (a Khams Tibetan variety) and Choča-ngača (Tsamang-Tsakhaling, a Tibetic language of Bhutan).[1] Doublet of བཞོ (bzho).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཞོ • (zho)

  1. yogurt, curds (fermented milk product)
  2. curd made from adding chhaang lees (སྐྱུར་རྩི (skyur rtsi)) to milk
  3. (Old Tibetan) milk
    Synonyms: འོ་མ ('o ma), འོ་རྗེན ('o rjen)
  4. a historical unit of currency in Tibet

References

  • “ཞོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  1. ^ Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan, Lacito Publication. Page 675. →ISBN
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