སྐུ in All languages combined

IPA: /*sku/, /ku˥˥/ [Lhasa] Forms: sku [romanization] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”) and Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-pro|*s-kəw||body; chest; thorax; corpse}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”), {{cog|my|ကိုယ်||body}} Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”), {{och-l|軀|body}} 軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} སྐུ • (sku)

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "'dra sku",
      "word": "འདྲ་སྐུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "sku gzugs",
      "word": "སྐུ་གཟུགས"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "sku brnyan",
      "word": "སྐུ་བརྙན"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "sku 'dra",
      "word": "སྐུ་འདྲ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "sku lus",
      "word": "སྐུ་ལུས"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "sku spur",
      "word": "སྐུ་སྤུར"
    }
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      },
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    },
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      },
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    {
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        "romanization"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "སྐུ • (sku)",
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          "body"
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        "(honorific) body"
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          "english": "wooden statue/image",
          "roman": "shing sku",
          "text": "ཤིང་སྐུ",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "silvern statue/image",
          "roman": "dngul sku",
          "text": "དངུལ་སྐུ",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "image, statue"
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      "links": [
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          "statue"
        ]
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  ],
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    {
      "other": "/*sku/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*sku/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ku˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "སྐུ"
}

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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Tibetan lemmas",
    "Tibetan nouns",
    "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Tibetan terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "'dra sku",
      "word": "འདྲ་སྐུ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sku gzugs",
      "word": "སྐུ་གཟུགས"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sku brnyan",
      "word": "སྐུ་བརྙན"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sku 'dra",
      "word": "སྐུ་འདྲ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sku lus",
      "word": "སྐུ་ལུས"
    },
    {
      "english": "sku spur",
      "word": "སྐུ་སྤུར"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*s-kəw",
        "4": "",
        "5": "body; chest; thorax; corpse"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "ကိုယ်",
        "3": "",
        "4": "body"
      },
      "expansion": "Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "軀",
        "2": "body"
      },
      "expansion": "軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”) and Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "སྐུ • (sku)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "body"
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          "body",
          "body"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(honorific) body"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "honorific"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Tibetan terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "wooden statue/image",
          "roman": "shing sku",
          "text": "ཤིང་སྐུ",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "silvern statue/image",
          "roman": "dngul sku",
          "text": "དངུལ་སྐུ",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "image, statue"
      ],
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        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ],
        [
          "statue",
          "statue"
        ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*sku/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*sku/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ku˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "སྐུ"
}

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"སྐུ" meaning in All languages combined

Noun [Tibetan]