ཨ་མ
Kurtöp
Etymology
From Proto-Bodish *ama. Cognates include Tibetan ཨ་མ (a ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʔɐ́.mɐ]
Noun
ཨ་མ ('ama)
References
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 231
Tibetan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ʔa.ma/
- Lhasa: /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ʔa.ma/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: af-maf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʔa˥˥.ma˥˥/
Noun
ཨ་མ • (a ma)
- a term of address to one's mother.
- Synonym: མ (ma)
References
- “ཨ་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.