རྔུལ་ཆུ

Tibetan

Etymology

རྔུལ (rngul) +‎ ཆུ (chu). Cognate with Garo kramchi; compare Chinese 汗水 (hànshuǐ).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rŋul.t͡ɕʰu/
• Lhasa: /ŋyː˥˥.t͡ɕuˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rŋul.t͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ngue^f-ju
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋyː˥˥.t͡ɕuˑ/

Noun

རྔུལ་ཆུ • (rngul chu)

1. sweat, perspiration
2. Salween River

Related terms

• རྔུལ་ནག (rngul nag)