རྐུ

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Tibetan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-kəw ~ hu (to steal). Cognate with Burmese ခိုး (hkui:, to steal), Nuosu (ku), (kux njie, to steal), Naxi kv (to steal), Jingpho lägu (to steal), Drung keu (to steal), Yakkha खुमा (khuma, to steal) and Chinese (OC *kʰoːs, “to rob”). Related to རྐུན་མ (rkun ma, robber, thief).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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རྐུ (rku) (nominal form རྐུ་བ)

  1. (transitive) to steal, to rob

Conjugation

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