ཆུ

See also: ཆཱོ, ཆ, ཚི, ཚ, and ཚོ

Balti

Noun

ཆུ (chu) (Perso-Arabic script چھو)

1. water

References

• Peter C. Backstrom, and Carla F. Radloff Languages of northern areas: Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2 (1992; SIL) (notes that this form is used in all dialect areas)
• R. K. Sprigg, Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary: chu

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥/

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

1. water
2. urine

   Synonym: ཆབ་གསང་བསྡུསཔ (chab gsang bsdusp)

References

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

1. water
2. river

References

• August Hermann Francke, A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga
• Bettina Zeisler, Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰu/

Noun

ཆུ (chu) (Devanagari spelling छ्यु)

1. water

References

• Lhakpa Doma Sherpa, Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka), Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak), Sherpa Conversation & Basic Words (2006), page 148

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɕʰu/

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

1. water

References

• Juha Yliniemi, A Descriptive Grammar of Denjongke (Sikkimese Bhutia). (2021)

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰu/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /t͡ɕʰu˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/
• Zêkog: /t͡ɕʰə/
• Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰə/
• Arik: /t͡ɕʰə/
• Maqu: /t͡ɕʰə/
• Ngawa: /t͡ɕʰə/
• Mdung-Nag: /ʈ͡ʂʰə/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qu^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰʊ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰə˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (Ngawa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰə/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰə/

Noun

“water”

Plain	ཆུ (chu)
Honorific	ཆབ (chab)

ཆུ • (chu)

1. water
2. river

Derived terms

• ཁྱིལ་ཆུ (khyil chu, “puddle”)
• དངུལ་ཆུ (dngul chu, “quicksilver, mercury”)
• ཆུ་ལྒང (chu lgang, “blister”)
• ཆུ་སྒྲོམ (chu sgrom, “cistern”)
• ཆུ་ཆེན (chu chen, “river”)
• ཆུ་དོང (chu dong)
• ཆུ་སྣོད (chu snod, “jug”)
• ཆུ་བོ (chu bo, “river”)
• ཆུ་མིག (chu mig, “spring”)
• ཆུ་ཟོམ (chu zom, “bucket”)
• ཆུ་རག (chu rag, “dam”)
• ཆུ་ལོག (chu log, “flood”)
• ཆུ་སེར (chu ser, “lymph”)
• ཆུ་སྲིན (chu srin, “whale”)
• འཐོར་ཆུ ('thor chu, “shower”)
• བབས་ཆུ (babs chu, “waterfall”)
• སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)
• གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu, “river”)
• ཚེ་ཆུ (tshe chu)
• རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu, “Mekong”)

 

References

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

Zangskari

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

1. water

References

• Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar