མ

མ

1. Tibetan letter ma

• IPA^(key): /mɑ/, [mɑ]

མ (ma)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

• IPA^(key): /mɑ˥/, [mɑ˥]

མ (ma)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ˩/

མ (ma)

1. Alternative form of མི (mi, “not, non-”)

• IPA^(key): /mə/, [mə]

མ (ma)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

• IPA^(key): /ma/, [ma]

མ (ma)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan alphabet

• IPA^(key): /mɐ/, [mɐ]

མ (ma)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

མ • (ma)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Tibetan alphabet

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མ • (ma)

1. mother

   Synonym: ཨ་མ (a ma)

2. goddess

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“no, not”).

(Note: mav - before low-tone syllables; maf - before high-tone syllables; mhaf - before high-tone aspirated syllables)

མ • (ma)

1. negates the following verb in the past tense.

   བལྟས་ཀྱང་མ་མཐོང ― bltas kyang ma mthong ― He looked but did not see it

2. negates the following verb in the imperative tense; prohibitive particle.
3. placed between nouns to indicate “neither ... nor ...”.

   ར་མ་ལུག ― ra ma lug ― neither a goat nor a sheep

མ • (ma)

1. ownership suffix used to indicate the feminine form of a noun.

   ཟློས་གར་མ ― zlos gar ma ― female singer/dancer

མ • (ma)

1. particle affixed to nouns to add a level of specificity or gravity to the noun.