པོ་ཏི

པོ་ཏི

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• པུ་ཏི (pu ti)
• པོད (pod)
• པུས་ཏི (pus ti)
• པུས་ཏི་ཀ (pus ti ka)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka, “manuscript, book”), from a Middle Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*po.ti/
• Lhasa: /pu˥˥.ti˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*po.ti/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: bu^f-di^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pu˥˥.ti˥˥/

Noun

པོ་ཏི • (po ti)

1. volume, book, scripture

Descendants

• → Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠲᠢ (boti) / боть (botʹ, “tome”)