སྣུམ

Sherpa

Etymology

Cognates include Darmiya ne-mo, Chaudangsi nɛmo.

Noun

སྣུམ (nûm)

oil

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-n(u/a)m (STEDT). Compare Bokar num, Lepcha ᰍᰪᰮᰗᰪ (nǔm-tsǔ), Guiqiong mɔ³³ nɑ⁵³, Queyu ma³⁵ na⁵³, and possibly Chinese 腩 (OC *nuːmʔ).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*znum/
Lhasa: /num˥˥/
Batang: /ȵ̥ũ⁵⁵/
Zêkog: /rn̥əm/
Bla-Brang: /hnəm/
Arik: /rn̥əm/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*znum/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: num^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /num˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵ̥ũ⁵⁵/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rn̥əm/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hnəm/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rn̥əm/

Noun

སྣུམ • (snum)

oil, grease
petrol, gasoline, gas

Derived terms

རྡོ་སྣུམ (rdo snum)
སྣུམ་ཅན (snum can)
སྣུམ་རླུང (snum rlung)
མོ་ཊའི་སྣུམ (mo ṭa'i snum)
གཟིམ་སྣུམ (gzim snum)
རླངས་སྣུམ (rlangs snum)

See also

འབྲུ་མར ('bru mar)

References

“སྣུམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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