གྲུ

Dzongkha

Noun

གྲུ (gru)

ferry

Tibetan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɡru/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡru/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chu^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˨/

Noun

གྲུ • (gru)

boat, ship
angle, corner

Derived terms

རྣམ་གྲུ (rnam gru, “constellation Revati”)
གྲུ་གཟིངས (gru gzings)
གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru, “airplane”)
ཚོང་གྲུ (tshong gru)
གྲུ་མོ (gru mo, “elbow”)
གྲུ་ཤན (gru shan, “ferry”)
ཤིང་གྲུ (shing gru)
གྲུ་གསུམ (gru gsum, “triangle”)
གྲུ་བཞི (gru bzhi, “square”)

References

“གྲུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“གྲུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

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