སྤྲུལ

See also: སྤྲེལ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare perhaps Old Chinese (OC *prons, “to change”), whence 變態变态 (biàntài, “to metamorphose, be abnormal”) and thus English hentai.

Pronunciation


Verb

སྤྲུལ • (sprul) (nominal form སྤྲུལ་བ)

  1. (intransitive or transitive) to appear to change, to transform oneself, to cause illusions, to alter an object by magic

Conjugation

Classical Tibetan
present སྤྲུལ (sprul)
future སྤྲུལ (sprul)
past སྤྲུལ (sprul)
imperative སྤྲུལ (sprul)
Old Tibetan
present སྤྲུལ (sprul)
future སྤྲུལ (sprul)
past སྤྲུལད (spruld)
imperative སྤྲུལད (spruld)

Derived terms