See also: སོ and སུ
U+0F66, ས
TIBETAN LETTER SA

[U+0F65]
Tibetan
[U+0F67]

Translingual

Letter

  1. Tibetan letter sa

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]

Letter

(sa)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ˥/, [sɑ˥]

Letter

(sa)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sa-j. Cognates include Tibetan (sa) and Dzongkha (sa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sə́/

Noun

(sa) (genitive-ergative སའི, locative ས་ཀོ or ས་ན)

  1. earth
  2. land
  3. place
  4. soil

References

  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis), page 124
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 220

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sə/, [sə]

Letter

(sa)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa/, [sa]

Letter

(sa)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognates include Jingpho wa (tooth), Burmese သွား (swa:), Tibetan སོ (so).

Noun

(sa) (Devanagari spelling )

  1. tooth

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]

Letter

(sa)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (earth, ground, soil).

Pronunciation


Noun

• (sa)

  1. earth, land, soil, ground

Derived terms

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