ཇོ་ཇོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Believed to have originally been a general honorific; compare ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “mistress”) and the semantic development of ཐུ་བོ (thu bo).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑo.d͡ʑo/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑo.d͡ʑo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jo^f-jo^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/

Noun

ཇོ་ཇོ • (jo jo)

1. older brother

   Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཕུ་བོ (phu bo), ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific), གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) (literary)

2. older male cousin
3. (term of address for a man) brother, sir, mister

   Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific)

Coordinate terms

• མིང་པོ (ming po)

References

• “ཇོ་ཇོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.