བྲེ

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Kurtöp

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Etymology

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Related to Tibetan བྲེ (bre) and Dzongkha བྲེ (bre). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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བྲེ (bre)

  1. measuring cup (mug for measuring grain)
  2. A traditional unit of volume, equal to the volume of a measuring cup.

References

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  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)[1], pages 108, 339
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 147