འབྲས

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(')mras, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ras (“rice; fruit; bear fruit; round object”). Compare Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas (“rice”), whence Malay beras and Tagalog bigas.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbras/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˧˨/
Batang: /nɖ͡ʐɛ˥˥/
Dêgê: /nɖ͡ʐe˩˧/
Zêkog: /nɖ͡ʐi/
Bla-Brang: /nɖ͡ʐe/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbras/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhae^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˧˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐɛ˥˥/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐe˩˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐi/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐe/

Noun

འབྲས • ('bras)

(cooked) rice
fruit

Derived terms

སྒོང་འབྲས (sgong 'bras)
ཐང་འབྲས (thang 'bras)
འབྲས་ཆན ('bras chan)
འབྲས་ཐུག ('bras thug)
འབྲས་སྤུངས ('bras spungs)
འབྲས་བུ ('bras bu)

See also

ཁྲེ (khre, “millet”)