རྩྭ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tswa-n (“grass”). Cognate with Chinese 草 (OC *sʰuːʔ).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rt͡sʷa/
Lhasa: /t͡sa˥˥/
Batang: /t͡sa˥˧/
Dêgê: /t͡sa˥˧/
Zêkog: /rt͡sa/
Bla-Brang: /ht͡sa/
Arik: /rt͡sæ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rt͡sʷa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: za^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rt͡sa/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ht͡sa/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rt͡sæ/

Noun

རྩྭ • (rtswa)

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”)

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