འགྲོ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɢʷrat.

Verb

འགྲོ (dro)

  1. to go

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(gʷ)ra, cognate to Kurtöp (ra, to come).

Pronunciation


Verb

“to go”
Plain འགྲོ ('gro)
Honorific ཕེབས (phebs)

འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)

  1. to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
  2. to get, to get into, to enter
  3. to find room in, to be contained in
  4. to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
  5. to be used for
  6. to be acceptable (to the senses)

Conjugation

present འགྲོ ('gro)
future འགྲོ ('gro)
past ཕྱིན (phyin)
སོང (song)
འགྲོ ('gro)
(archaicཕྱིནད (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

See also