རི

See also: ར

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ri˩/

Noun

རི (ri)

hill, (portion of) a mountain below the tree line

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [rì]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri. Cognates include Dzongkha རི (ri) and Tibetan རི (ri).

Noun

རི (ri)

small mountain

Derived terms

རི་ཕག (riphak)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Dzongkha རིལ (ril) and Tibetan རིལ (ril).

Verb

རི (ri)

(intransitive) to roll

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 201

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri (“mountain”).

Noun

རི (ri)

mountain

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ri/
Lhasa: /ʐi˩˨/
Batang: /ʐi˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /ri˧˩/
Zêkog: /rə/
Bla-Brang: /rə/
Arik: /rə/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ri/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ri^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐi˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʐi˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ri˧˩/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /rə/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rə/

Noun

རི • (ri)

mountain, hill

Derived terms

གངས་རི (gangs ri)
ལྕགས་རི (lcags ri, “fence”)
མེ་རི (me ri, “volcano”)

Tshangla

Noun

རི (ri)

(Tshangla) water
river

Synonyms

छु (Memba)

References

Erik E. Andvik, A Grammar of Tshangla (as ri)