འགྲོ
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Sherpa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.
Verb[edit]
འགྲོ (dro)
- to go
References[edit]
- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009
Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵑɡro/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhov
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
Verb[edit]
Plain | འགྲོ ('gro) |
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Honorific | ཕེབས (phebs) |
འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)
- to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
- to get, to get into, to enter
- to find room in, to be contained in
- to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
- to be used for
- to be acceptable (to the senses)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of འགྲོ
Note: the past སོང (song) is more typical of eastern dialects, whereas ཕྱིན (phyin) more of central dialects. The present/future form འགྲོ ('gro) is occasionally also used in the past tense in colloquial Lhasa Tibetan and the colloquial speech of the Tibetan exile community.
Derived terms[edit]
- འགྲོ་ས ('gro sa, “destination”)
See also[edit]
- འོང ('ong, “to come”)