སྐྱུར་མོ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kjuːr ~ s-kjwaːr (“sour”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skʲur.mo/
• Lhasa: /cuː˥˥.mu˥˥/, /cuː˥˥.pu˥˨/
• Batang: /ɕu˥˥.pʊ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ɕu˥˧.bo˥˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skʲur.mo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gyuu^f-mu^f, gyuu^f-bu^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cuː˥˥.mu˥˥/, /cuː˥˥.pu˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɕu˥˥.pʊ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɕu˥˧.bo˥˧/

Adjective

སྐྱུར་མོ • (skyur mo)

1. sour, rancid

References

• “སྐྱུར་མོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “སྐྱུར་མོ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.