"ཆུ" meaning in Tibetan

See ཆུ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /*t͡ɕʰu/, /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/ [Lhasa], /t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/ [Batang], /t͡ɕʰu˥˧/ [Dêgê], /ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/ (note: Gyaitang), /t͡ɕʰə/ [Zêkog], /t͡ɕʰə/ [Bla-Brang], /t͡ɕʰə/ (note: Arik), /t͡ɕʰə/ (note: Maqu), /t͡ɕʰə/ (note: Ngawa), /ʈ͡ʂʰə/ (note: Mdung-Nag) Forms: chu [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-pro|*tsju|t=water, liquid, body fluid}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”), {{cog|zh|-}} Chinese, {{zh-l|斗|ladle}} 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), {{zh-l|注|to pour}} 注 (zhù, “to pour”) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} ཆུ • (chu)
  1. water
    Sense id: en-ཆུ-bo-noun-D0FoSQ44 Categories (other): Tibetan entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. river
    Sense id: en-ཆུ-bo-noun-X1qO2PE5 Categories (other): Tibetan entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ཁྱིལ་ཆུ (khyil chu) (english: puddle), དངུལ་ཆུ (dngul chu) (english: quicksilver, mercury), ཆུ་ལྒང (chu lgang) (english: blister), ཆུ་སྒྲོམ (chu sgrom) (english: cistern), ཆུ་ཆེན (chu chen) (english: river), ཆུ་དོང (chu dong), ཆུ་སྣོད (chu snod) (english: jug), ཆུ་བོ (chu bo) (english: river), ཆུ་མིག (chu mig) (english: spring), ཆུ་ཟོམ (chu zom) (english: bucket), ཆུ་རག (chu rag) (english: dam), ཆུ་ལོག (chu log) (english: flood), ཆུ་སེར (chu ser) (english: lymph), ཆུ་སྲིན (chu srin) (english: whale), འཐོར་ཆུ ('thor chu) (english: shower), བབས་ཆུ (babs chu) (english: waterfall), སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu) (english: venom), གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu) (english: river), ཚེ་ཆུ (tshe chu), རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu) (english: Mekong)
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "puddle",
      "roman": "khyil chu",
      "word": "ཁྱིལ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "quicksilver, mercury",
      "roman": "dngul chu",
      "word": "དངུལ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "blister",
      "roman": "chu lgang",
      "word": "ཆུ་ལྒང"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "cistern",
      "roman": "chu sgrom",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྒྲོམ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "chu chen",
      "word": "ཆུ་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "chu dong",
      "word": "ཆུ་དོང"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "jug",
      "roman": "chu snod",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྣོད"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "chu bo",
      "word": "ཆུ་བོ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "spring",
      "roman": "chu mig",
      "word": "ཆུ་མིག"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "bucket",
      "roman": "chu zom",
      "word": "ཆུ་ཟོམ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "dam",
      "roman": "chu rag",
      "word": "ཆུ་རག"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "flood",
      "roman": "chu log",
      "word": "ཆུ་ལོག"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "lymph",
      "roman": "chu ser",
      "word": "ཆུ་སེར"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "whale",
      "roman": "chu srin",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྲིན"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "shower",
      "roman": "'thor chu",
      "word": "འཐོར་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "waterfall",
      "roman": "babs chu",
      "word": "བབས་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "venom",
      "roman": "sbrul so'i dug chu",
      "word": "སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "gtsang chu",
      "word": "གཙང་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "tshe chu",
      "word": "ཚེ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "Mekong",
      "roman": "rdza chu",
      "word": "རྫ་ཆུ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*tsju",
        "t": "water, liquid, body fluid"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "斗",
        "2": "ladle"
      },
      "expansion": "斗 (dǒu, “ladle”)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "注",
        "2": "to pour"
      },
      "expansion": "注 (zhù, “to pour”)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཆུ • (chu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "water"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཆུ-bo-noun-D0FoSQ44",
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "river"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཆུ-bo-noun-X1qO2PE5",
      "links": [
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*t͡ɕʰu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*t͡ɕʰu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰu˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰu˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/",
      "note": "Gyaitang"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Arik"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Maqu"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Ngawa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰə/",
      "note": "Mdung-Nag"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཆུ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 7 entries",
    "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": [
    {
      "english": "puddle",
      "roman": "khyil chu",
      "word": "ཁྱིལ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "quicksilver, mercury",
      "roman": "dngul chu",
      "word": "དངུལ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "blister",
      "roman": "chu lgang",
      "word": "ཆུ་ལྒང"
    },
    {
      "english": "cistern",
      "roman": "chu sgrom",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྒྲོམ"
    },
    {
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "chu chen",
      "word": "ཆུ་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chu dong",
      "word": "ཆུ་དོང"
    },
    {
      "english": "jug",
      "roman": "chu snod",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྣོད"
    },
    {
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "chu bo",
      "word": "ཆུ་བོ"
    },
    {
      "english": "spring",
      "roman": "chu mig",
      "word": "ཆུ་མིག"
    },
    {
      "english": "bucket",
      "roman": "chu zom",
      "word": "ཆུ་ཟོམ"
    },
    {
      "english": "dam",
      "roman": "chu rag",
      "word": "ཆུ་རག"
    },
    {
      "english": "flood",
      "roman": "chu log",
      "word": "ཆུ་ལོག"
    },
    {
      "english": "lymph",
      "roman": "chu ser",
      "word": "ཆུ་སེར"
    },
    {
      "english": "whale",
      "roman": "chu srin",
      "word": "ཆུ་སྲིན"
    },
    {
      "english": "shower",
      "roman": "'thor chu",
      "word": "འཐོར་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "waterfall",
      "roman": "babs chu",
      "word": "བབས་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "venom",
      "roman": "sbrul so'i dug chu",
      "word": "སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "river",
      "roman": "gtsang chu",
      "word": "གཙང་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tshe chu",
      "word": "ཚེ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "Mekong",
      "roman": "rdza chu",
      "word": "རྫ་ཆུ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*tsju",
        "t": "water, liquid, body fluid"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "斗",
        "2": "ladle"
      },
      "expansion": "斗 (dǒu, “ladle”)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "注",
        "2": "to pour"
      },
      "expansion": "注 (zhù, “to pour”)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཆུ • (chu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "water"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "river"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*t͡ɕʰu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*t͡ɕʰu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰu˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰu˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/",
      "note": "Gyaitang"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Arik"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Maqu"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕʰə/",
      "note": "Ngawa"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʈ͡ʂʰə/",
      "note": "Mdung-Nag"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཆུ"
}

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