འཆུ

See also: འཆི་བ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Derived from ཆུ (chu, “water”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ju^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Verb

འཆུ • ('chu) (nominal form འཆུ་བ)

(transitive) to draw, take or bring water (from a well or a spring)

Conjugation

present	འཆུ ('chu) བཅུ (bcu)
future	བཅུ (bcu) གཅུ (gcu)
past	བཅུས (bcus)
imperative	ཆུས (chus) བཅུས (bcus)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰyː˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: que^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰyː˥˨/

Verb

འཆུ • ('chu) (nominal form འཆུ་བ)

(intransitive) to be twisted, to be distorted, to become crooked
(intransitive) to lose appetite

Conjugation

present	འཆུ ('chu) འཆུས ('chus)
future	འཆུ ('chu) འཆུས ('chus)
past	འཆུས ('chus)
imperative	འཆུས ('chus)