སྦྲུལ

See also: སྤྲུལ and སྤྲེལ

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”).

Noun

སྦྲུལ (sbrul)

snake

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *smrul, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mrul (“snake”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zbrul/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˩˨/
Batang: /ɖ͡ʐy˥˥/
Dêgê: /ru˥˧/
Gyaitang: /ʑy˥˧/
Zêkog: /ru/
Bla-Brang: /ru/
Arik: /rbu/
Maqu: /wu/
Mdung-Nag: /ru/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zbrul/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhue^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɖ͡ʐy˥˥/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ru˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ʑy˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ru/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ru/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rbu/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /wu/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ru/

Noun

སྦྲུལ • (sbrul)

snake

Derived terms

ཆུ་སྦྲུལ (chu sbrul)
སྦྲུལ་རྒྱན (sbrul rgyan)
སྦྲུལ་ཉ (sbrul nya)
སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu)

References

“སྦྲུལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“སྦྲུལ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.