ཨ་མྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit आम्र (āmra, “mango”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ʔa.mra/
Lhasa: /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
Batang: /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/
Dêgê: /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ʔa.mra/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: a^f-ma^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʔa⁵⁵ ma⁵³/

Noun

ཨ་མྲ • (a mra)

persimmon, Diospyros kaki
Synonyms: འབྲ་གོ ('bra go), ཨ་མྲའི་ནོར་བུ (a mra'i nor bu)
mango

References

“ཨ་མྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.