འབྲི
Tibetan
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editའབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
Conjugation
editConjugation of འབྲི
Derived terms
edit- དག་ཆ་བྲིས (dag cha bris)
- རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris)
Etymology 2
editResultative of འཕྲི ('phri).
Pronunciation
edit- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
Verb
editའབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
Conjugation
editConjugation of འབྲི
Etymology 3
editEither 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
editའབྲི • ('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