བྱ

See also: བ, བཱུ, བྷ, and བློ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b(j/r)a (“bird”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

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

Noun

བྱ • (bya)

1. bird

Derived terms

• བྱ་འཕིར (bya 'phir, “kite”)
• བྱ་རྒོད (bya rgod, “vulture”)
• བྱ་སྤུ (bya spu, “down”)
• བྱ་སྒྲོ (bya sgro, “feather”)
• བྱ་རིགས (bya rigs)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

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

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

Suffix

བྱ • (bya)

1. placed after certain verbs to produce nouns

Pronunciation 2

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰe˩˧˨/, /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qe^w, qa^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰe˩˧˨/, /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Verb

བྱ • (bya) (nominal form བྱ་པ)

1. future of བྱེད (byed)