ཉེ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီ (ni, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵe.ba/
• Lhasa: /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ȵe.ba/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nye^v-wa
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/

Adjective

ཉེ་བ • (nye ba)

1. near, close, intimate

Derived terms

• ཉེ་ཁོར (nye khor)

References

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