འབྲུ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(m/b)rəw (“grain, seed, lineage”) (STEDT), via Proto-Bodish *(')bru. Compare Southern Qiang [Term?] (/ʁə̀/, “wheat, barley”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed, type, lineage”), Western Tamang [script needed] ('pluh, “seed”); potential Chinese comparanda include 物 (OC *mɯd), 苗 (OC *mrew) and 麰 (OC *mu). (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbru/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂu˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbru/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu˩˨/

Noun

འབྲུ • ('bru)

barley
grain

Derived terms

འབྲུ་ཁང ('bru khang)
འབྲུ་ཁལ ('bru khal)
འབྲུ་ཆར ('bru char)
འབྲུ་འཐག་པ ('bru 'thag pa)
འབྲུ་འདེད ('bru 'ded)
འབྲུ་ལྤགས ('bru lpags)
འབྲུ་མར ('bru mar)
འབྲུ་ཟུན ('bru zun)

See also

ནས (nas)

References

“འབྲུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. →ISBN