"ཚྭ" meaning in Tibetan

See ཚྭ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /*t͡sʰʷa/, /t͡sʰa˥˥/ [Lhasa], /t͡sʰa˥˧/ [Batang], /t͡sʰa˥˧/ [Dêgê], /t͡sʰa/ [Zêkog], /t͡sʰa/ [Bla-Brang], /tsʰá/ (note: Spiti) Forms: tshwa [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-pro|*tsa||salt}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} ཚྭ • (tshwa)
  1. salt Derived forms: བྲག་ཚྭ (english: rock salt; brag tshwa), ཚྭ་ཆུ (tshwa chu) (english: salt-water), ཚྭ་ཁུ (tshwa khu), ཟེ་ཚྭ (ze tshwa), རྒྱམ་ཚྭ (rgyam tshwa), ལན་ཚྭ (lan tshwa), ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa) (english: quarried salt)
    Sense id: en-ཚྭ-bo-noun-Y0ea1poJ Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Seasonings
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*tsa",
        "4": "",
        "5": "salt"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tshwa",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཚྭ • (tshwa)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bo",
          "name": "Seasonings",
          "orig": "bo:Seasonings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "rock salt; brag tshwa",
          "word": "བྲག་ཚྭ"
        },
        {
          "english": "salt-water",
          "roman": "tshwa chu",
          "word": "ཚྭ་ཆུ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "tshwa khu",
          "word": "ཚྭ་ཁུ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ze tshwa",
          "word": "ཟེ་ཚྭ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "rgyam tshwa",
          "word": "རྒྱམ་ཚྭ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "lan tshwa",
          "word": "ལན་ཚྭ"
        },
        {
          "english": "quarried salt",
          "roman": "thang tshwa",
          "word": "ཐང་ཚྭ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "salt"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཚྭ-bo-noun-Y0ea1poJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "salt",
          "salt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*t͡sʰʷa/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/tsʰá/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*t͡sʰʷa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tsʰá/",
      "note": "Spiti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཚྭ"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "rock salt; brag tshwa",
      "word": "བྲག་ཚྭ"
    },
    {
      "english": "salt-water",
      "roman": "tshwa chu",
      "word": "ཚྭ་ཆུ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tshwa khu",
      "word": "ཚྭ་ཁུ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ze tshwa",
      "word": "ཟེ་ཚྭ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rgyam tshwa",
      "word": "རྒྱམ་ཚྭ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lan tshwa",
      "word": "ལན་ཚྭ"
    },
    {
      "english": "quarried salt",
      "roman": "thang tshwa",
      "word": "ཐང་ཚྭ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*tsa",
        "4": "",
        "5": "salt"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa (“salt”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tshwa",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཚྭ • (tshwa)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 3 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",
        "bo:Seasonings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "salt"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "salt",
          "salt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*t͡sʰʷa/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/tsʰá/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*t͡sʰʷa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˥/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa˥˧/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰa/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tsʰá/",
      "note": "Spiti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཚྭ"
}

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