ཅ

See also: ཅི and ཙ

ཅ U+0F45, ཅ TIBETAN LETTER CA ← ང [U+0F44] Tibetan ཆ → [U+0F46]

Translingual

Letter

ཅ

1. Tibetan letter ca

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃə/, [t͡ʃʌ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The eighth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɑ/, [t͡ɕɑ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [c͡ɕɐ́]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tibetan ལྕགས (lcags).

Noun

ཅ (ca)

1. iron

Derived terms

• ཅ་ཀར (cakar)
• ཅ་མ (cama)

Etymology 2

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

Verb

ཅ (ca)

1. (intransitive) to dress up

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 39
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa/, [t͡ʃə]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Ladakh alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa/, [t͡ʃa]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The eleventh letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕɐ/, [t͡ɕɐ]

Letter

ཅ (ca)

1. The fifth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕa/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ja^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕa˥˥/

Letter

ཅ • (ca)

1. Tibetan letter ca