འབབ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bap (“to fall over”). Resultative of འབེབས ('bebs).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbap/
• Lhasa: /pəp̚˩˧˨/, /pʰəp̚˩˧˨/
• Batang: /pɑʔ˨˧˩/
• Bla-Brang: /nbap/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbap/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: bacb^w, pacb^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pəp̚˩˧˨/, /pʰəp̚˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /pɑʔ˨˧˩/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nbap/

Verb

འབབ • ('bab) (nominal form འབབ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to go or fall from a higher place to a lower; to descend; to land
2. (intransitive) to rain
3. (intransitive) to become smaller, fewer

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབབ	'bab
Future	བབ འབབ དབབ	bab 'bab dbab
Past	བབས བབ	babs bab
Imperative	བབ བབས བོབས འབོབ འབོབས	bab babs bobs 'bob 'bobs

Verb

འབབ • ('bab) (nominal form འབབ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to get off; to dismount

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབབ	'bab
Future	འབབ	'bab
Past	བབ	bab
Imperative	བོབ	bob