མར
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mar (“gold; yellow; butter; oil”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*mar/
- Lhasa: /maː˩˧/
- Batang: /mɑ˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*mar/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: maav
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /maː˩˧/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /mɑ˩˧/
Noun
མར • (mar)
- butter
- (colloquial) oil
Etymology 2
From the root མ (ma, “below”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*mar/
- Lhasa: /maː˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*mar/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: maav
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /maː˩˧/
Adverb
མར • (mar)
- below, downward
Antonyms
- ཡར (yar, “upward”)
Etymology 3
From མ (ma, “mother”) + ར (ra, “terminative case marker”).
Noun
མར • (mar)
- to, into or as a/the mother