འབབ
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bap (“to fall over”). Resultative of འབེབས ('bebs).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbap/
- Lhasa: /pəp̚˩˧˨/, /pʰəp̚˩˧˨/
- Batang: /pɑʔ˨˧˩/
- Bla-Brang: /nbap/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵐbap/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: bacbw, pacbw
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pəp̚˩˧˨/, /pʰəp̚˩˧˨/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /pɑʔ˨˧˩/
- Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /nbap/
Verb
འབབ • ('bab) (nominal form འབབ་པ)
- (intransitive) to go or fall from a higher place to a lower; to descend; to land
- (intransitive) to rain
- (intransitive) to become smaller, fewer
Conjugation
| present | འབབ ('bab) |
|---|---|
| future | བབ (bab) འབབ ('bab) དབབ (dbab) |
| past | བབས (babs) བབ (bab) |
| imperative | བབ (bab) བབས (babs) བོབས (bobs) འབོབ ('bob) འབོབས ('bobs) |
Verb
འབབ • ('bab) (nominal form འབབ་པ)
Conjugation
| present | འབབ ('bab) |
|---|---|
| future | འབབ ('bab) |
| past | བབ (bab) |
| imperative | བོབ (bob) |