གྲུ

Dzongkha

Noun

གྲུ (gru)

1. ferry

Tibetan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Are these two really senses of a single word, or are they homographs from different sources?”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɡru/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɡru/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: chu^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Noun

གྲུ • (gru)

1. boat, ship
2. angle, corner

Derived terms

• རྣམ་གྲུ (rnam gru, “constellation Revati”)
• གྲུ་གཟིངས (gru gzings)
• གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru, “airplane”)
• ཚོང་གྲུ (tshong gru)
• གྲུ་མོ (gru mo, “elbow”)
• གྲུ་ཤན (gru shan, “ferry”)
• ཤིང་གྲུ (shing gru)
• གྲུ་གསུམ (gru gsum, “triangle”)
• གྲུ་བཞི (gru bzhi, “square”)

References

• “གྲུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “གྲུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.