ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ

Tibetan

Etymology

The last syllable is derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lep (“butterfly”), whence also Burmese လိပ်ပြာ (lippra) and Old Chinese 蝴蝶 (OC *ɡaː l̥ʰeːb/l'eːb).

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Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*pʰʲe.ma.lep/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰe˥˥.ma˥˥.lep̚˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*pʰʲe.ma.lep/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qe^f-ma^f-leb^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰe˥˥.ma˥˥.lep̚˥˨/

Noun

ཕྱེ་མ་ལེབ • (phye ma leb)

butterfly

See also

ཕྱེ་ལེབ (phye leb)
ཅེམ་ཅེམ་མ (cem cem ma)

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