འབྲས

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(')mras, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ras (“rice; fruit; bear fruit; round object”). Compare Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas (“rice”), whence Malay beras and Tagalog bigas.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbras/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˧˨/
• Batang: /nɖ͡ʐɛ˥˥/
• Dêgê: /nɖ͡ʐe˩˧/
• Zêkog: /nɖ͡ʐi/
• Bla-Brang: /nɖ͡ʐe/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbras/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhae^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɛː˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐɛ˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐe˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐi/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nɖ͡ʐe/

Noun

འབྲས • ('bras)

1. (cooked) rice
2. fruit

Derived terms

• སྒོང་འབྲས (sgong 'bras)
• ཐང་འབྲས (thang 'bras)
• འབྲས་ཆན ('bras chan)
• འབྲས་ཐུག ('bras thug)
• འབྲས་སྤུངས ('bras spungs)
• འབྲས་བུ ('bras bu)

Descendants

• → Japhug: mbrɤz

See also

• ཁྲེ (khre, “millet”)