ཆུ

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See also: ཆཱོ, , ཚི, , and ཚོ

Balti

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Noun

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ཆུ (chu) (Perso-Arabic script چھو)

  1. water

References

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  • Peter C. Backstrom, and Carla F. Radloff Languages of northern areas: Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2 (1992; SIL) (notes that this form is used in all dialect areas)
  • R. K. Sprigg, Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary: chu

Dzongkha

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. urine
    Synonym: ཆབ་གསང་བསྡུསཔ (chab gsang bsdusp)

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Ladakhi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Noun

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ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. river

References

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  • August Hermann Francke, A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga
  • Bettina Zeisler, Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

Sherpa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ཆུ (chu) (Devanagari spelling छ्यु)

  1. water

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Sikkimese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ཆུ (chu)

  1. water

References

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  • Juha Yliniemi, A Descriptive Grammar of Denjongke (Sikkimese Bhutia). (2021)

Tibetan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid). Compare Chinese (dǒu, “ladle”), (zhù, “to pour”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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“water”
Plain ཆུ (chu)
Honorific ཆབ (chab)

ཆུ (chu)

  1. water
  2. river

Derived terms

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References

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

Zangskari

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (water, liquid, body fluid).

Noun

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ཆུ (chu)

  1. water

References

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  • Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar