ཚ་ལུ་མ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

ཚ་ལུམ (tsha lum, “sweet orange grown in Sikkim”)

Etymology

ཚ་ལུ (tsha lu, “red”) +‎ མ (ma, “noun suffix”). Related to མཚལ (mtshal, “vermillion pigment”), མཚལ་ལུ (mtshal lu, “*red”) (Zhang, 2009).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*t͡sʰa.lu.ma/
Lhasa: /t͡sʰə˥˥.lu˥˥.məˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*t͡sʰa.lu.ma/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: cac^f-lu^f-mac
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰə˥˥.lu˥˥.məˑ/

Noun

ཚ་ལུ་མ • (tsha lu ma)

orange, tangerine

Derived terms

ཚ་ལུ་མའི་དྲི (tsha lu ma'i dri)

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