སྣུམ

Sherpa

Etymology

Cognates include Darmiya ne-mo, Chaudangsi nɛmo.

Noun

སྣུམ (nûm)

1. oil

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-n(u/a)m (STEDT). Compare Bokar num, Lepcha ᰍᰪᰮᰗᰪ (nǔm-tsǔ), Guiqiong mɔ³³ nɑ⁵³, Queyu ma³⁵ na⁵³, and possibly Chinese 腩 (OC *nuːmʔ).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*znum/
• Lhasa: /num˥˥/
• Zêkog: /rn̥əm/
• Bla-Brang: /hnəm/
• Arik: /rn̥əm/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*znum/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: num^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /num˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rn̥əm/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hnəm/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rn̥əm/

Noun

སྣུམ • (snum)

1. oil, grease
2. petrol, gasoline, gas

Derived terms

• སྣུམ་རླུང (snum rlung)
• མོ་ཊའི་སྣུམ (mo ṭa'i snum)
• གཟིམ་སྣུམ (gzim snum)
• རླངས་སྣུམ (rlangs snum)

 

See also

• འབྲུ་མར ('bru mar)

References

• “སྣུམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.