འགྲོ
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Sherpa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.
Verb
[edit]འགྲོ (dro)
- to go
References
[edit]- Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009
Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwat.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Old Tibetan: /*ᵑɡro/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhov
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂo˩˨/
Verb
[edit]Plain | འགྲོ ('gro) |
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Honorific | ཕེབས (phebs) |
འགྲོ • ('gro) (nominal form འགྲོ་བ) (intransitive)
- to go, to walk, to proceed, to set off, to move, to depart, to migrate
- to get, to get into, to enter
- to find room in, to be contained in
- to turn to, to be transformed into, to become
- to be used for
- to be acceptable (to the senses)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of འགྲོ
Note: the past སོང (song) is more typical of eastern dialects, whereas ཕྱིན (phyin) more of central dialects. The present/future form འགྲོ ('gro) is occasionally also used in the past tense in colloquial Lhasa Tibetan and the colloquial speech of the Tibetan exile community.
Derived terms
[edit]- འགྲོ་ས ('gro sa, “destination”)
See also
[edit]- འོང ('ong, “to come”)