ཤར

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ཤར (shar) and Tibetan ཤར (shar).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [çɐ́r]

Noun

ཤར (shar)

east

Verb

ཤར (shar)

(intransitive) to shine

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 216
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).

Verb

ཤར (shar)

to rise (as a celestial body)

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɕar/
Lhasa: /ɕaː˥˥/
Batang: /xha˥˧/
Dêgê: /xha˥˧/
Zêkog: /xhar/
Bla-Brang: /xhar/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɕar/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xaa^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕaː˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /xha˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /xha˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /xhar/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /xhar/

Noun

ཤར • (shar)

east

Verb

ཤར • (shar) (nominal form ཤར་བ)

to rise (as a celestial body)

Derived terms

ཤར་གླིང (shar gling, “Asia”)

See also

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ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)