འབྲི

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).

Pronunciation

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

  1. (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
Conjugation
present འབྲི ('bri)
འདྲི ('dri)
བྲི (bri)
future བྲི (bri)
འབྲི ('bri)
past བྲིས (bris)
imperative བྲིས (bris)
ཕྲིས (phris)
རིས (ris)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).

Pronunciation

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane
Conjugation
present འབྲི ('bri)
བྲི (bri)
future འབྲི ('bri)
བྲི (bri)
past བྲི (bri)
imperative བྲི (bri)

Etymology 3

Cognate to Tamangic *Bprit.[1] Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rə) → lí.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

འབྲི • ('bri)

  1. female yak
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
  • འབྲི་མོ ('bri mo)

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume, d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade, Zhang, Shuya (2021) “Yak Domestication: A Review of Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Evidence”, in Ethnobiology Letters, volume 12, number 1, →DOI, page 109 of 103-114
  2. ^ *Schuessler, Axel (2007) ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese‎[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 348.
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