ས
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Translingual
Letter
ས
- Tibetan letter sa
Balti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]
Letter
ས (sa)
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ˥/, [sɑ˥]
Letter
ས (sa)
Kurtöp
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sa-j. Cognates include Tibetan ས (sa) and Dzongkha ས (sa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sɐ́]
Noun
ས (sa)
References
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], page 124
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 220
Ladakhi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə/, [sə]
Letter
ས (sa)
Sherpa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa/, [sa]
Etymology 1
Letter
ས (sa)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-wa. Cognates include Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), Tibetan སོ (so).
Noun
ས (sa) (Devanagari spelling स)
Sikkimese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]
Letter
ས (sa)
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s(r)aj (“earth, ground, soil”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*sa/
- Lhasa: /sa˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*sa/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: saf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /sa˥˥/
Noun
ས • (sa)
Derived terms
- ས་ཁུལ (sa khul)