ས

See also: སོ and སུ

ས U+0F66, ས TIBETAN LETTER SA ← ཥ [U+0F65] Tibetan ཧ → [U+0F67]

Translingual

Letter

ས

1. Tibetan letter sa

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Kurtop

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sa-j. Cognates include Tibetan ས (sa), Dzongkha ས (sa) and Mandarin 沙 (shā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə́/

Noun

ས (sa)

1. earth
2. land
3. place
4. soil

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎^[1], page 124
• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 220

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Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (“earth, ground, soil”).

Noun

1. earth, land, soil, ground

Derived terms

• ས་ཁུལ (sa khul)