རྩྭ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(r)tsuʔ (“grass”), suffixed with -བ (-ba). Cognate with Chinese 草 (OC *sʰuːʔ), 荐 (OC *zlɯːns), Mawo Northern Qiang [Term?] (/dʐu/), Taoping Southern Qiang [Term?] (/dʐo²⁴¹/), Longchang Ao a za, Sangtam Naga za nu.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rt͡sʷa/
Lhasa: /t͡sa˥˥/
Batang: /t͡sa˥˧/
Dêgê: /t͡sa˥˧/
Zêkog: /rt͡sa/
Bla-Brang: /ht͡sa/
Arik: /rt͡sæ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rt͡sʷa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: za^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rt͡sa/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ht͡sa/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rt͡sæ/

Noun

རྩྭ • (rtswa)

Derived terms

དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ (dbyar rtswa dgun 'bu)
རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
རྩྭ་ཐང (rtswa thang, “pasture”)
རྩྭ་འབྲུམ་བུ (rtswa 'brum bu)
རྩྭ་ཞྭ (rtswa zhwa, “straw hut”)
རྩྭ་ཡན (rtswa yan, “weed”)
སོ་མ་ར་རྩྭ (so ma ra rtswa, “hemp”)

References

“རྩྭ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.