རྩྭ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(r)tsuʔ (“grass”), suffixed with -བ (-ba). Cognate with Chinese 草 (OC *sʰuːʔ), 荐 (OC *zlɯːns), Mawo Northern Qiang [Term?] (/dʐu/), Taoping Southern Qiang [Term?] (/dʐo²⁴¹/), Longchang Ao a za, Sangtam Naga za nu.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rt͡sʷa/
• Lhasa: /t͡sa˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡sa˥˧/
• Dêgê: /t͡sa˥˧/
• Zêkog: /rt͡sa/
• Bla-Brang: /ht͡sa/
• Arik: /rt͡sæ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rt͡sʷa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: za^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡sa˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rt͡sa/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ht͡sa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rt͡sæ/

Noun

རྩྭ • (rtswa)

1. grass
2. straw
3. herb

Derived terms

• དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུ (dbyar rtswa dgun 'bu)
• རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
• རྩྭ་ཐང (rtswa thang, “pasture”)
• རྩྭ་འབྲུམ་བུ (rtswa 'brum bu)
• རྩྭ་ཞྭ (rtswa zhwa, “straw hut”)
• རྩྭ་ཡན (rtswa yan, “weed”)
• སོ་མ་ར་རྩྭ (so ma ra rtswa, “hemp”)

References

• “རྩྭ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.