ཉི་མ
Dzongkha
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nji˩.mɑ˩/
Adverb
ཉི་མ (nyi ma)
- (in the) afternoon
Sherpa
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj.
Noun
ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)
- sun
- day
Proper noun
ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)
- a unisex given name: Nyima
References
- Nicolas Tournadre; Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa; Gyurme Chodrak; Guillaume Oisel (2009), “ཉི་མ”, in Sherpa-English and English Sherpa Dictionary […], Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, →ISBN, page 84
Tibetan
Etymology
ཉི (nyi) is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ȵi.ma/
- Lhasa: /ȵi˩˧.mə˥˥/
- Batang: /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
- Bla-Brang: /ȵə.ma/
- Arik: /ȵə.mæ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ȵi.ma/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyiv-macf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ȵi˩˧.mə˥˥/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
- Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /ȵə.ma/
- (Arik) IPA(key): /ȵə.mæ/
Noun
ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)
- sun
- day
- (གཟའ་~) Sunday
Derived terms
- ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag, “solstice”)
- ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཤུགས (nyi ma'i 'od shugs, “solar power”)
Descendants
- → Chinese: 尼瑪/尼玛 (Nímǎ)
- → Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠮᠠ (nim'a) / ням (njam)
Proper noun
ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)
- Nyima (a county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
- a unisex given name: Nyima