བཅུ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Tibetan numbers

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Cardinal : བཅུ (bcu)     Ordinal : བཅུ་པ (bcu pa)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(j)i(j) ~ tsjaj (“ten”). Cognate with Burmese ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pt͡ɕu/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Dêgê: /t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Zêkog: /pt͡ɕə/
• Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pt͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: ju^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /pt͡ɕə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕə/

Numeral

བཅུ • (bcu)

1. ten

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pt͡ɕu/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕu˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pt͡ɕu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan Pinyin: ju^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕu˥˥/

Verb

བཅུ • (bcu) (nominal form བཅུ་བ)

1. future of འཆུ ('chu)