འབྲི
Tibetan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˧/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: chiv, zhiv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˧/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˧/
Verb
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (transitive) to write, to draw, to note down
Conjugation
Conjugation of འབྲི
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | འབྲི འདྲི བྲི | 'bri 'dri bri |
Future | བྲི འབྲི | bri 'bri |
Past | བྲིས | bris |
Imperative | བྲིས ཕྲིས རིས | bris phris ris |
Derived terms
- དག་ཆ་བྲིས (dag cha bris)
- རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris)
Etymology 2
Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
Verb
འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)
- (intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane
Conjugation
Conjugation of འབྲི
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | འབྲི བྲི | 'bri bri |
Future | འབྲི བྲི | 'bri bri |
Past | བྲི | bri |
Imperative | བྲི | bri |
Etymology 3
Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rɯː, *rɯ, *maːw, *mraːw).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
- Lhasa: /pi˩˧/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˧/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: biv, zhiv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pi˩˧/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˧/
Noun
འབྲི • ('bri)
- female yak
Coordinate terms
- གཡག (g.yag, “male yak”)
Derived terms
- འབྲི་མོ ('bri mo)