འབྲས་བུ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of འབྲས ('bras, “rice, fruit”) +‎ བུ (bu, “child, son”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbras.bu/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˨.pu˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbras.bu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhae^v-bu^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˨.pu˥˥/

Noun

འབྲས་བུ • ('bras bu)

1. fruit
2. (figuratively) effect, result, consequence

Derived terms

• མིག་འབྲས (mig 'bras, “eyeball”)
• འབྲས་བུ་སྐྱེ ('bras bu skye, “bear fruit”)

See also

• ཤིང་ཏོག (shing tog)
• ཤིང་འབྲས (shing 'bras)