འབྲི
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chiv, zhiv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/
Verb[edit]
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of འབྲི
Derived terms[edit]
- དག་ཆ་བྲིས (dag cha bris)
- རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris)
Etymology 2[edit]
Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
Verb[edit]
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of འབྲི
Etymology 3[edit]
Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rə) > lí.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
- Lhasa: /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: biv, zhiv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/
Noun[edit]
འབྲི • ('bri)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- གཡག (g.yag, “male yak”)
Derived terms[edit]
- འབྲི་མོ ('bri mo)
References[edit]
- ^ Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 348