ཤིག

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-ɕ/ (non-syllabic)

Adverb

ཤིག (shig)

  1. (suffixed to verbs) used to form urgent imperatives or unambiguous imperatives

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik.

Noun

ཤིག (shig)

  1. louse

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *sik, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *srik.

Pronunciation


Noun

ཤིག • (shig)

  1. louse
Derived terms
  • སྲོ་མ (sro ma, nit, louse egg)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Particle

ཤིག • (shig)

  1. (Classical) Form of ཅིག (cig)
  2. (grammar) urgent imperative marker
Usage notes

The modern imperative marker is a low register form, but can be used with both honorific and non-honorific forms. It is generally pronounced as a non-syllabic IPA(key): /-ɕ/ appended onto the imperative form of the verb.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ “The Particles དང་ and ཤིག་”, in Knowledge Maps of Subjects, University of Virginia[1], 2016
  • ཤིག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 257. →ISBN