རྐུ
See also: རྣ་བ, རྨུ་བ, རྩ་བ, and རྩི་བ
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-kəw ~ hu (“to steal”). Cognate with Burmese ခိုး (hkui:, “to steal”), Sichuan Yi ꈐ (ku), ꈏꐷ (kux njie, “to steal”), Naxi kv (“to steal”), Jingpho lägu (“to steal”), Drung keu (“to steal”), Yakkha खुमा (khuma, “to steal”) and Chinese 寇 (OC *kʰoːs, “to rob”). Related to རྐུན་མ (rkun ma, “robber, thief”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*rku/
- Lhasa: /ku˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rku/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: guf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ku˥˥/
Verb
རྐུ • (rku) (nominal form རྐུ་བ)
- (transitive) to steal, to rob
Conjugation
Conjugation of རྐུ
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | རྐུ | rku |
Future | བརྐུ | brku |
Past | བརྐུས | brkus |
Imperative | རྐུས | rkus |