སྦྱོར
See also: སྒྱུར་བ
Tibetan
Etymology
Causative of འབྱོར ('byor, “to adhere, stick to”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bjar ~ pjar (“to affix, plait”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*zbʲor/
- Lhasa: /t͡ɕaː˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*zbʲor/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jaav
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕaː˩˨/
Verb
སྦྱོར • (sbyor) (nominal form སྦྱོར་བ)
- (transitive) to link, to join, to connect
- (transitive) to affix, to attach, to apply
- (transitive) to establish
- (transitive) to conduct, to behave
- (transitive) to practice, to meditate
- (transitive) to copulate
Conjugation
| present | སྦྱོར (sbyor) |
|---|---|
| future | སྦྱར (sbyar) |
| past | སྦྱར (sbyar) |
| imperative | སྦྱོར (sbyor) |
| present | སྦྱོར (sbyor) |
|---|---|
| future | སྦྱར (sbyar) |
| past | སྦྱརད (sbyard) |
| imperative | སྦྱོརད (sbyord) |
Derived terms
- སྦྱོར་ཀློག (sbyor klog)
- སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་རིག་པ (sgra sbyor rig pa, “phonology”)