ཅ

See also: ཅི and ཙ

ཅ U+0F45, ཅ TIBETAN LETTER CA ← ང [U+0F44] Tibetan ཆ → [U+0F46]

Translingual

Letter

ཅ

1. Tibetan letter ca

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə/, [t͡ʃʌ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The eighth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/, [t͡ɕɑ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [c͡ɕɐ́]

Etymology 1

Chemical element (edit)
Fe Atomic number 26 ཅ (ca)
Classification data Period 4 Group 8 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Borrowed from Tibetan ལྕགས (lcags).

Noun

ཅ (ca)

1. iron

Derived terms

• ཅ་ཀར (cakar)
• ཅ་མ (cama)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ཅ (ca)

1. (intransitive) to dress up

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཅ (ca)

		affirmative	negative I	negative II
unmarked		ཅ (ca)	མ་ཅ (maca)	མེ་ཅ (meca)
prospective		ཅ་ཀི་ན (cakina)	མ་ཅ་ཀི་ན (macakina)	མེ་ཅ་ཀི་ན (mecakina)
perfective	I	ཅ་ས་ར (casara)	མ་ཅ་ས་ར (macasara)	མེ་ཅ་ས་ར (mecasara)
	II	ཅ་མུ (camu)	—	—
	III	ཅ་ན (cana)	མ་ཅ་ན (macana)	མེ་ཅ་ན (mecana)
	IV	ཅ་ཤང (cashang)	མ་ཅ་ཤང (macashang)	མེ་ཅ་ཤང (mecashang)
	V	ཅ་ས་ལ (casala)	མ་ཅ་ས་ལ (macasala)	མེ་ཅ་ས་ལ (mecasala)
	mirative	ཅ་ན (cana)	མ་ཅ་ན (macana)	མེ་ཅ་ན (mecana)
imperfective	egophoric	ཅ་ཏ་ཀི (cataki)	མ་ཅ་ཏ་ཀི (macataki)	མེ་ཅ་ཏ་ཀི (mecataki)
	non-egophoric	ཅ་ཏ (cata)	མ་ཅ་ཏ (macata)	མེ་ཅ་ཏ (mecata)
infinitive		ཅ་རོ (caro)

References

• G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 39
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa/, [t͡ʃə]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Ladakh alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa/, [t͡ʃa]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The eleventh letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ/, [t͡ɕɐ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ja^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕa˥˥/

Letter

ཅ • (ca)

1. Tibetan letter ca