འགྲོ
Sherpa
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɢʷrat.
Verb
འགྲོ (dro)
- to go
References
- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Bodish *(gʷ)ra, cognate to Kurtöp ར (ra, “to come”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵑɡro/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵑɡro/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhov
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
Verb
| Plain | འགྲོ ('gro) |
|---|---|
| Honorific | ཕེབས (phebs) |
འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)
- to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
- to get, to get into, to enter
- to find room in, to be contained in
- to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
- to be used for
- to be acceptable (to the senses)
Conjugation
| present | འགྲོ ('gro) |
|---|---|
| future | འགྲོ ('gro) |
| past | ཕྱིན (phyin) སོང (song) འགྲོ ('gro) (archaic) ཕྱིནད (phyind) |
| imperative | སོང (song) |
Note: the past སོང (song) is more typical of eastern dialects, whereas ཕྱིན (phyin) more of central dialects. The present/future form འགྲོ ('gro) is occasionally also used in the past tense in colloquial Lhasa Tibetan and the colloquial speech of the Tibetan exile community.
Derived terms
- འགྲོ་ས ('gro sa, “destination”)
See also
- འོང ('ong, “to come”)