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

Conjugation

Conjugation of ར (ra)

		affirmative	negative I	negative II
unmarked		ར (ra)	མ་ར (mara)	མེ་ར (mera)
prospective		ར་ཀི་ན (rakina)	མ་ར་ཀི་ན (marakina)	མེ་ར་ཀི་ན (merakina)
perfective	I	ར་ས་ར (rasara)	མ་ར་ས་ར (marasara)	མེ་ར་ས་ར (merasara)
	II	ར་མུ (ramu)	—	—
	III	ར་ན (rana)	མ་ར་ན (marana)	མེ་ར་ན (merana)
	IV	ར་ཤང (rashang)	མ་ར་ཤང (marashang)	མེ་ར་ཤང (merashang)
	V	ར་ས་ལ (rasala)	མ་ར་ས་ལ (marasala)	མེ་ར་ས་ལ (merasala)
	mirative	ར་ན (rana)	མ་ར་ན (marana)	མེ་ར་ན (merana)
imperfective	egophoric	ར་ཏ་ཀི (rataki)	མ་ར་ཏ་ཀི (marataki)	མེ་ར་ཏ་ཀི (merataki)
	non-egophoric	ར་ཏ (rata)	མ་ར་ཏ (marata)	མེ་ར་ཏ (merata)
infinitive		ར་རོ (raro)

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.