མི
See also: མ, མེ, and མོ
Dzongkha
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n.
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /mi˥/
Noun
མི ('mi)
- person, human
- people, set of persons
- mortal
- man
- -er (agent noun-forming suffix)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-.
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /mi˩/
Adverb
མི (mi)
- not, non-
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*mi/
- Lhasa: /mi˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*mi/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: miv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /mi˩˧/
Noun
མི • (mi)
- person, human being, man
Derived terms
- དམག་མི (dmag mi)
- ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མི (phyi rgyal gyi mi)
- མི་ཚང (mi tshang)
- མི་ཚོགས (mi tshogs, “crowd”)
- མི་སེར (mi ser, “serf”)
- མིའི་གསོབ (mi'i gsob, “mannequin”)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-. Variant of མ (ma), used in situations where མ (ma) is not used, usually with present and future stems of verbs.
Adverb
མི • (mi)
- (prepositional negative particle) not, un-