ཨ་མ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Tibetan ཨ་མ (a ma).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ə́mə/

Noun

ཨ་མ ('ama) (genitive-ergative ཨ་མི, locative ཨ་མ་ན)

mother

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: a^f-ma^f
- (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.

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