ཕོ

ཕོ

See also: ཕ

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk. Cognates include Tibetan ཕུག​ (phug​) and Mandarin 腹 (fù).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰó/

Noun

pho

1. hole
2. cave

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎, page 107
• G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 139

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Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pʰo/
• Lhasa: /pʰo˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pʰo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: po^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰo˥˥/

Noun

ཕོ • (pho)

1. male, man, gentleman, masculine
2. father, paternal
3. stomach, reticulum, second stomach of ruminant
4. transmigration

Derived terms

• ཕོ་ཧྲང (pho hrang, “bachelor”)