ཤར
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ɕar/
- Lhasa: /ɕaː˥˥/
- Batang: /xha˥˧/
- Dêgê: /xha˥˧/
- Zêkog: /xhar/
- Bla-Brang: /xhar/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ɕar/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: xaaf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɕaː˥˥/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /xha˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA(key): /xha˥˧/
- Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA(key): /xhar/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /xhar/
Noun
ཤར • (shar)
- east
Derived terms
- ཤར་གླིང (shar gling, “Asia”)