ཇ

See also: ཛ

ཇ	U+0F47, ཇ TIBETAN LETTER JA

[unassigned: U+0F48]

← ཆ
[U+0F46]

Tibetan

ཉ →
[U+0F49]

Translingual

Letter

ཇ

Tibetan letter ja

Balti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə/, [d͡ʒʌ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The tenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/, [t͡ɕɑ]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɟ͡ʑɐ̀]

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 54
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Sherpa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa/, [d͡ʒa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The thirteenth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan ཇ (ja). Cognates include Dzongkha ཇ (ja).

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʑɐ/, [d͡ʑɐ]

Letter

ཇ (ja)

The seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

Derived terms

ཇ་ཁང (ja khang)
ཇ་ཐང (ja thang)
ཇ་དམ (ja dam)
ཇ་མདོང (ja mdong)
ཇ་ཕྱི (ja phyi)
ཇ་འབིམ (ja 'bim)
ཇ་སྦག (ja sbag)
ཇ་ཙག (ja tsag)
ཇ་ཞིང (ja zhing)
ཇ་རིལ (ja ril)
ཇ་རོ (ja ro)

References

Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 59

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Letter

ཇ • (ja)

letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 茶 (MC drae), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qa^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨/

Noun

“tea”
Plain	ཇ (ja)
Honorific	གསོལ་ཇ (gsol ja)

ཇ • (ja)

tea

Derived terms

ཇ་སྦ་ཀག (ja sba kag)
ཇ་ཁེབས (ja khebs, “tea cosy”)
ཇ་ཀོབ་པི (ja kob pi, “coffee”)
འཚིག་ཇ ('tshig ja, “coffee”)

Descendants

→ Kurtöp: ཇ (ja)

Zangskari

Noun

ཇ (ja)

tea

References

Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar