རྩྭ

རྩྭ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tswa-n (“grass”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rt͡sʷa/
• Lhasa: /t͡sa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rt͡sʷa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: za^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˥/

Noun

རྩྭ • (rtswa)

1. grass

Derived terms

• རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
• རྩྭ་ཞྭ (rtswa zhwa, “straw hat”)
• རྩྭ་ཡན (rtswa yan, “weed”)
• སོ་མ་ར་རྩྭ (so ma ra rtswa, “hemp”)