རྩི
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsij (“medicine; juice; paint”). Compare Nuosu ꋌ (cy) (as in ꁬꋌ (bbut cy)), Lolopo naxcir (“medicine”), Naxi cher'ee (“medicine”), Burmese ဆေး (hce:), Chinese 漆 (OC *sʰiɡ).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*rt͡si/
- Lhasa: /t͡si˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rt͡si/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zif
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡si˥˥/
Noun
རྩི • (rtsi)
Derived terms
- སྦྲང་རྩི (sbrang rtsi, “honey”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*rt͡si/
- Lhasa: /t͡si˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rt͡si/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zif
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡si˥˥/
Verb
རྩི • (rtsi) (nominal form རྩི་བ)
- (transitive) to count, to reckon, to calculate
- (transitive) to think that something is, to regard as
- (transitive) to think about doing something, to plan on
- (transitive) to go against, to defy, to accept, to bear
Conjugation
| present | རྩི (rtsi) |
|---|---|
| future | བརྩི (brtsi) |
| past | བརྩིས (brtsis) རྩིས (rtsis) |
| imperative | རྩིས (rtsis) བརྩིས (brtsis) |