ཇ

See also: ཛ

ཇ U+0F47, ཇ TIBETAN LETTER JA [unassigned: U+0F48] ← ཆ [U+0F46] Tibetan ཉ → [U+0F49]

Translingual

Letter

ཇ

1. Tibetan letter ja

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə/, [d͡ʒʌ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The tenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/, [t͡ɕɑ]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟə̀/

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 54
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa/, [d͡ʒa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The thirteenth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐ/, [d͡ʑɐ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

1. The seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ • (ja)

1. letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC drae), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

Noun

“tea”

Plain	ཇ (ja)
Honorific	གསོལ་ཇ (gsol ja)

ཇ • (ja)

1. tea

Derived terms

• ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)
• ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs, “tea cosy”)
• ཇ་ཀོབ་པི (ja kob pi, “coffee”)
• འཚིག་ཇ ('tshig ja, “coffee”)

Descendants

• → Kurtöp: ཇ (ja)

Zangskari

Noun

ཇ (ja)

1. tea

References

• Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar