སློབ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lwap (“to practice, to learn”).

Verb

སློབ (lo(p))

to learn

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *slap, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sləp (“to practice, to learn”). Compare Chinese 習 (OC *ljub).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zlop/
Lhasa: /ləp̚˥˨/
Dêgê: /ɬuʔ˥˧/
Zêkog: /ɬop/
Bla-Brang: /ɬop/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zlop/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lacb^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ləp̚˥˨/
Khams
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɬuʔ˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɬop/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ɬop/

Verb

སློབ • (slob) (nominal form སློབ་པ)

(transitive) to study, to learn
(transitive) to teach, to advise

Conjugation

present	སློབ (slob)
future	བསླབ (bslab)
past	སླབས (slabs) བསླབས (bslabs) སླབ (slab)
imperative	སློབས (slobs) སློབ (slob)

Derived terms

སློབ་ཁང (slob khang, “classroom”)
སློབ་ཁྲིད (slob khrid, “teaching”)
སློབ་གྲོགས (slob grogs, “school-mate”)
སློབ་གྲྭ (slob grwa, “school”)
སློབ་དེབ (slob deb, “textbook”)
སློབ་ཕྲུག (slob phrug, “student”)
སློབ་སྦྱོང (slob sbyong, “study”)
སློབ་མ (slob ma, “student”)
སློབ་ཡ (slob ya, “teacher”)

See also

སློབ་ཁྲིད་བྱེད (slob khrid byed)