འོག་མ

Tibetan

Etymology

འོག ('og, “below”) +‎ མ (ma, specifier suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

འོག་མ • ('og ma)

  1. later, what comes after, the following
  2. the lesser
  3. (family) younger sibling
    Coordinate terms: གཅུང་པོ (gcung po), གཅུང་མོ (gcung mo), ནུ་བོ (nu bo), ནུ་མོ (nu mo), ཨ་ནུ (a nu)

Usage notes

In Lhasa Tibetan, and by extension Modern Standard Tibetan, it is usual to refer to younger siblings with འོག་མ ('og ma), without specifying younger brother or younger sister unless otherwise required.[1][2] Compare Korean 동생 (dongsaeng) and Vietnamese em.

References

  • “འོག་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  1. ^ Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan, Lacito Publications, →ISBN, page 730.
  2. ^ Samuels, Jonathan (2014) Colloquial Tibetan: the complete course for beginners, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 60.
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