ར

See also: རི, エ, and 工

ར U+0F62, ར TIBETAN LETTER RA ← ཡ [U+0F61] Tibetan ལ → [U+0F63]

Translingual

Letter

ར

1. Tibetan letter ra

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾɑ/, [ɾɑ]

Letter

ར (ra)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɑ˥/, [rɑ˥]

Letter

ར (ra)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(gʷ)ra; cognate to Tibetan འགྲོ ('gro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rɐ̀]

Verb

ར (ra)

1. (intransitive) to come

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 198
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 100

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rə/, [rə]

Letter

ར (ra)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾa/, [ɾa]

Letter

ར (ra)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɐ~ɹɐ~ɾɐ/, [rɐ~ɹɐ~ɾɐ]

Letter

ར (ra)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *ra, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ra; cognate with 羜 (OC *draʔ), Pattani lá, etc.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ra/
• Lhasa: /ʐa˩˨/
• Bla-Brang: /ʐa/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ra/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ra^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐa˩˨/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ʐa/

Noun

ར • (ra)

1. goat

See also

• ལུག (lug, “sheep”)

Further reading

• “ར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ར” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.