འཇིབ
Sherpa
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-tsjup.
Verb
འཇིབ (jip)
- to suck
References
- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-tsjup.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ⁿd͡ʑip/
- Lhasa: /t͡ɕip̚˩˧˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ⁿd͡ʑip/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jibw
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕip̚˩˧˨/
Verb
འཇིབ • ('jib) (nominal form འཇིབ་པ)
Conjugation
| present | འཇིབ ('jib) འཇིབས ('jibs) འཇིག ('jig) |
|---|---|
| future | གཞིབ (gzhib) བཞིབ (bzhib) |
| past | གཞིབས (gzhibs) བཞིབས (bzhibs) བཞིབ (bzhib) |
| imperative | འཇིབས ('jibs) ཇིབས (jibs) |
Derived terms
- འཇིབ་རུ ('jib ru, “dummy, pacifier”)