འབྲས

Tibetan

Etymology

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

Noun

1. (cooked) rice
2. fruit

Derived terms

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

See also

• ཁྲེ (khre, “millet”)