གཞུ

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Tibetan[edit]

གཞུ

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d/s-ləy. Compare Chinese 矢 (OC *hliʔ), Burmese လေး (le:, “bow”), S'gaw Karen ချံၣ် (khleè, “bow”), Naxi leemei (“longbow”), Jingpho kung-li (“bow”), Manipuri ꯂꯤꯔꯨꯡ (leeroong, “bow”), Limbu li (“bow”), Lepcha sali (“bow”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation[edit]

Old Tibetan: /*gʑu/
Lhasa: /ɕu˩˨/
Batang: /ɣᴜ⁵³ /
Dêgê: /ɣu⁵³ /
Zêkog: /ɣʑə/, /ʑə/
Bla-Brang: /hʑə/
Arik: /ɣjə /
Lahuli–Spiti: /ʒu/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*gʑu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕu˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɣᴜ⁵³ /
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɣu⁵³ /
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɣʑə/, /ʑə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hʑə/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ɣjə /
Lahuli–Spiti
- (Spiti) IPA^(key): /ʒu/

Noun[edit]

གཞུ • (gzhu)

bow (weapon)
(architecture) bucket arch, used between the pillar and the beam

Verb[edit]

གཞུ • (gzhu) (nominal form གཞུ་བ)

hit, strike, knock, throw

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of གཞུ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	གཞུ	gzhu
Future	གཞུ	gzhu
Past	གཞུས	gzhus
Imperative	གཞུས	gzhus

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

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

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