བྱ་གཏོར
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
བྱ (bya, “bird”) + གཏོར (gtor, “scatter, dispose, destroy”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*bʲa.ktor/
- Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨.toː(ɹ)˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qav-dorh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨.toː(ɹ)˥˨/
Noun[edit]
བྱ་གཏོར • (bya gtor)
- sky burial, the traditional Tibetan funeral practice of excarnation
See also[edit]
- རིར་སྐྱེལ (rir skyel)