སྒྱུར

See also: སྦྱོར་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

Causative of འགྱུར ('gyur).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡʲur/
• Lhasa: /cuː(ɹ)˩˨/, /cuː˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡʲur/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gyur^v, gyuu^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cuː(ɹ)˩˨/, /cuː˩˨/

Verb

སྒྱུར • (sgyur) (nominal form སྒྱུར་བ)

1. (transitive) to transform, to change, to alter
2. (transitive) to cast aside, to dissuade, to divert, to cause to turn
3. (transitive) to govern, to steer, to control
4. (transitive) to translate, to interpret

Conjugation

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྒྱུར	sgyur
Future	བསྒྱུར	bsgyur
Past	བསྒྱུར	bsgyur
Imperative	སྒྱུར	sgyur

Conjugation of སྒྱུར (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྒྱུར	sgyur
Future	བསྒྱུར	bsgyur
Past	བསྒྱུརད	bsgyurd
Imperative	སྒྱུརད	sgyurd

Conjugation of སྒྱུར (Old Tibetan)

Derived terms

• གསུང་སྒྱུར (gsung sgyur, “interpreter, translator”)
• བསྒྱུར་པ (bsgyur pa, “translation”)
• ཡིང་སྒྱུར (ying sgyur, “translator”)
• སྐད་ཆ་སྒྱུར་ཡིག (skad cha sgyur yig, “subtitle”)
• སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur, “interpreter, translator”)