ཟ

ཟ

1. Tibetan letter za

• IPA^(key): /zɑ/, [zɑ]

ཟ (za)

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

• IPA^(key): /sɑ˥/, [sɑ˥]

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ˩/, [sɑ˩]

ཟ (za)

1. to eat
2. to bear fruit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sej. Cognates include Dzongkha ཟ (za, “to bear fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /zə̀/

ཟ (za)

1. fruit

• G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 181
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

• IPA^(key): /zə/, [zə]

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

• IPA^(key): /za/, [za]

ཟ (za)

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s.

ཟ (za)

1. to eat

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

• IPA^(key): /zɐ/, [zɐ]

ཟ (za)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

ཟ • (za)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Tibetan alphabet

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dza. Cognate with Chinese 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ).

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་པ)

1. (transitive) to eat, to have food

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to itch, to become itchy

• ཟ་ཕྲུག་ལང (za phrug lang)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ཟ • (za) (nominal form ཟ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to appear, to arise