"ཞོ" meaning in Tibetan

See ཞོ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /*ʑo/, /ɕo˩˨/ [Lhasa], /ɕo/ [Zêkog] Forms: zho [romanization]
Etymology: Nominal form of འཇོ ('jo, “to milk”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzy(ə/o)w (STEDT). Originally meant milk in Old Tibetan, which is preserved in Rongdrak (a Khams Tibetan variety) and Choča-ngača (Tsamang-Tsakhaling, a Tibetic language of Bhutan). Doublet of བཞོ (bzho). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|tbq-pro|*dzy(ə/o)w}} Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzy(ə/o)w, {{zh-ref|STEDT}} STEDT, {{bo-ref|Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023)}} Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023), {{dbt|bo|བཞོ}} Doublet of བཞོ (bzho) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} ཞོ • (zho)
  1. yogurt, curds (fermented milk product)
    Sense id: en-ཞོ-bo-noun-5w7Q9Cl2 Categories (other): Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Foods Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 29 27 8 36 Disambiguation of Foods: 24 26 24 26
  2. curd made from adding chhaang lees (སྐྱུར་རྩི (skyur rtsi)) to milk
    Sense id: en-ཞོ-bo-noun-1xcEEGCt Categories (other): Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Foods Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 29 27 8 36 Disambiguation of Foods: 24 26 24 26
  3. (Old Tibetan) milk Synonyms: འོ་མ, འོ་རྗེན
    Sense id: en-ཞོ-bo-noun-iCXnZTD4 Categories (other): Foods Disambiguation of Foods: 24 26 24 26
  4. a historical unit of currency in Tibet
    Sense id: en-ཞོ-bo-noun-wsb6RJYR Categories (other): Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Currency, Foods Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 29 27 8 36 Disambiguation of Currency: 2 2 2 93 Disambiguation of Foods: 24 26 24 26
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