སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ

Tibetan

Etymology

From སྤྱི (spyi, “general, common”) + མཐུན་པ (mthun pa, “accordant, fitting”) + རྒྱལ་ཁབ (rgyal khab, “country”). Calque of Chinese 共和國／共和国 (gònghéguó).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*spʲi.mtʰun.rɡʲal.kʰap/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕĩˑ.tỹˑ.gyal.kʰap̚ˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*spʲi.mtʰun.rɡʲal.kʰap/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jin-duen-gyal-kab
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕĩˑ.tỹˑ.gyal.kʰap̚ˑ/

Noun

སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ • (spyi mthun rgyal khab)

republic

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