རྒྱ་ཤུག

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱ (rgya) +‎ ཤུག (shug)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.ɕuk/
Lhasa: /cə˩˨.ɕu(k̚)ˀˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.ɕuk/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gyac^v-xug
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cə˩˨.ɕu(k̚)ˀˑ/

Noun

རྒྱ་ཤུག • (rgya shug)

(botany) various juniper species, such as the Himalayan juniper / flaky juniper (Juniperus squamata) and the Sichuan juniper (Juniperus saltuaria)
(botany) jujube, Chinese date (Ziziphus jujuba)
Synonym: འབྲ་གོ ('bra go)

References

“རྒྱ་ཤུག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 255. →ISBN