"འབུ" meaning in Tibetan

See འབུ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /*ᵐbu/, /pʰu˩˨/ [Lhasa], /mbu⁵³/ [Batang], /nbu³¹/ [Dêgê], /mbə/ [Zêkog], /nbə/ [Bla-Brang], /mbə/ (note: Arik), /bu/ (note: Spiti) Forms: 'bu [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Bodish *(')bu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”). Compare Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”), Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”), Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi), Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”), Lolopo bber, Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”), Drung beu (“snake”), and possibly Chinese 蜉 (OC *bu). Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-bdi-pro|*(')bu}} Proto-Bodish *(')bu, {{inh|bo|sit-pro|*N-pu(k)||insect / snake / vermin / bug}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”), {{cog|my|ပိုး||insect, worm, snake}} Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”), {{cog|lep|ᰓᰪ||snake, worm}} Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”), {{cog|ii|ꁯꄸ}} Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi), {{cog|nxq|bbeeddiq||insect}} Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”), {{cog|ycl|bber}} Lolopo bber, {{cog|txg|𘟥||insect, maggot}} Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”), {{cog|duu|beu||snake}} Drung beu (“snake”), {{cog|zh|-}} Chinese, {{och-l|蜉}} 蜉 (OC *bu) Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} འབུ • ('bu)
  1. worm, bug, insect Derived forms: དུག་འབུ (dug 'bu), དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ (dbyar rtswa dgun 'bu) (english: caterpillar fungus), འབུ་སྐམ ('bu skam) (english: dried caterpillar fungus), འབུ་པད་པ ('bu pad pa) (english: leech), འབུ་སྤུ་ཟོག ('bu spu zog) (english: caterpillar), འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman) (english: insecticide), འབུ་སྲིན ('bu srin) (english: insect), འབྲུ་འབུ ('bru 'bu), སྲིན་བུ (srin bu) (english: insect), ཧམ་འབུ (ham 'bu) (english: mould)
    Sense id: en-འབུ-bo-noun-9W3G3yGW Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Insects
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*N-pu(k)",
        "4": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "ပိုး",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect, worm, snake"
      },
      "expansion": "Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lep",
        "2": "ᰓᰪ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "snake, worm"
      },
      "expansion": "Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ii",
        "2": "ꁯꄸ"
      },
      "expansion": "Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nxq",
        "2": "bbeeddiq",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect"
      },
      "expansion": "Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ycl",
        "2": "bber"
      },
      "expansion": "Lolopo bber",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "txg",
        "2": "𘟥",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect, maggot"
      },
      "expansion": "Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "duu",
        "2": "beu",
        "3": "",
        "4": "snake"
      },
      "expansion": "Drung beu (“snake”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "蜉"
      },
      "expansion": "蜉 (OC *bu)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *(')bu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”). Compare Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”), Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”), Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi), Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”), Lolopo bber, Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”), Drung beu (“snake”), and possibly Chinese 蜉 (OC *bu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "'bu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "འབུ • ('bu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 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": "Insects",
          "orig": "bo:Insects",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "dug 'bu",
          "word": "དུག་འབུ"
        },
        {
          "english": "caterpillar fungus",
          "roman": "dbyar rtswa dgun 'bu",
          "word": "དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ"
        },
        {
          "english": "dried caterpillar fungus",
          "roman": "'bu skam",
          "word": "འབུ་སྐམ"
        },
        {
          "english": "leech",
          "roman": "'bu pad pa",
          "word": "འབུ་པད་པ"
        },
        {
          "english": "caterpillar",
          "roman": "'bu spu zog",
          "word": "འབུ་སྤུ་ཟོག"
        },
        {
          "english": "insecticide",
          "roman": "'bu sman",
          "word": "འབུ་སྨན"
        },
        {
          "english": "insect",
          "roman": "'bu srin",
          "word": "འབུ་སྲིན"
        },
        {
          "roman": "'bru 'bu",
          "word": "འབྲུ་འབུ"
        },
        {
          "english": "insect",
          "roman": "srin bu",
          "word": "སྲིན་བུ"
        },
        {
          "english": "mould",
          "roman": "ham 'bu",
          "word": "ཧམ་འབུ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "worm, bug, insect"
      ],
      "id": "en-འབུ-bo-noun-9W3G3yGW",
      "links": [
        [
          "worm",
          "worm"
        ],
        [
          "bug",
          "bug"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*ᵐbu/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/bu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*ᵐbu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰu˩˨/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nbu³¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbə/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nbə/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbə/",
      "note": "Arik"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bu/",
      "note": "Spiti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "འབུ"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "dug 'bu",
      "word": "དུག་འབུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "caterpillar fungus",
      "roman": "dbyar rtswa dgun 'bu",
      "word": "དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "dried caterpillar fungus",
      "roman": "'bu skam",
      "word": "འབུ་སྐམ"
    },
    {
      "english": "leech",
      "roman": "'bu pad pa",
      "word": "འབུ་པད་པ"
    },
    {
      "english": "caterpillar",
      "roman": "'bu spu zog",
      "word": "འབུ་སྤུ་ཟོག"
    },
    {
      "english": "insecticide",
      "roman": "'bu sman",
      "word": "འབུ་སྨན"
    },
    {
      "english": "insect",
      "roman": "'bu srin",
      "word": "འབུ་སྲིན"
    },
    {
      "roman": "'bru 'bu",
      "word": "འབྲུ་འབུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "insect",
      "roman": "srin bu",
      "word": "སྲིན་བུ"
    },
    {
      "english": "mould",
      "roman": "ham 'bu",
      "word": "ཧམ་འབུ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-bdi-pro",
        "3": "*(')bu"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bodish *(')bu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*N-pu(k)",
        "4": "",
        "5": "insect / snake / vermin / bug"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "ပိုး",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect, worm, snake"
      },
      "expansion": "Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lep",
        "2": "ᰓᰪ",
        "3": "",
        "4": "snake, worm"
      },
      "expansion": "Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ii",
        "2": "ꁯꄸ"
      },
      "expansion": "Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nxq",
        "2": "bbeeddiq",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect"
      },
      "expansion": "Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ycl",
        "2": "bber"
      },
      "expansion": "Lolopo bber",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "txg",
        "2": "𘟥",
        "3": "",
        "4": "insect, maggot"
      },
      "expansion": "Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "duu",
        "2": "beu",
        "3": "",
        "4": "snake"
      },
      "expansion": "Drung beu (“snake”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "蜉"
      },
      "expansion": "蜉 (OC *bu)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *(')bu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N-pu(k) (“insect / snake / vermin / bug”). Compare Burmese ပိုး (pui:, “insect, worm, snake”), Lepcha ᰓᰪ (bu, “snake, worm”), Nuosu ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi), Naxi bbeeddiq (“insect”), Lolopo bber, Tangut 𘟥 (*bə², “insect, maggot”), Drung beu (“snake”), and possibly Chinese 蜉 (OC *bu).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "'bu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "འབུ • ('bu)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tibetan lemmas",
        "Tibetan nouns",
        "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Bodish",
        "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
        "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Bodish",
        "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
        "Tibetan terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "bo:Insects"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "worm, bug, insect"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "worm",
          "worm"
        ],
        [
          "bug",
          "bug"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/*ᵐbu/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/bu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/*ᵐbu/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰu˩˨/",
      "tags": [
        "Lhasa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Batang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nbu³¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Dêgê"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbə/",
      "tags": [
        "Zêkog"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nbə/",
      "tags": [
        "Bla-Brang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mbə/",
      "note": "Arik"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bu/",
      "note": "Spiti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "འབུ"
}

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