ནུབ

See also: ན་བ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Dzongkha ནུབ (nub) and Tibetan ནུབ (nub).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nùp]

Noun

ནུབ (nup)

west

Verb

ནུབ (nup)

(intransitive) to be submerged

Conjugation

Conjugation of **ནུབ** (nup)
		affirmative	negative I	negative II
unmarked		ནུབ (nup)	མ་ནུབ (manup)	མི་ནུབ (minup)
prospective		ནུབ་ཀི་ན (nupkina)	མ་ནུབ་ཀི་ན (manupkina)	མི་ནུབ་ཀི་ན (minupkina)
perfective	I	ནུབ་པ་ར (nuppara)	མ་ནུབ་པ་ར (manuppara)	མི་ནུབ་པ་ར (minuppara)
	II	ནུབ་མུ (nupmu)	—	—
	III	ནུབ་ན (nupna)	མ་ནུབ་ན (manupna)	མི་ནུབ་ན (minupna)
	IV	ནུབ་ཤང (nupshang)	མ་ནུབ་ཤང (manupshang)	མི་ནུབ་ཤང (minupshang)
	V	ནུབ་པ་ལ (nuppala)	མ་ནུབ་པ་ལ (manuppala)	མི་ནུབ་པ་ལ (minuppala)
	mirative	ནུབ་ན (nupna)	མ་ནུབ་ན (manupna)	མི་ནུབ་ན (minupna)
imperfective	egophoric	ནུབ་ཏ་ཀི (nuptaki)	མ་ནུབ་ཏ་ཀི (manuptaki)	མི་ནུབ་ཏ་ཀི (minuptaki)
imperfective	non-egophoric	ནུབ་ཏ (nupta)	མ་ནུབ་ཏ (manupta)	མི་ནུབ་ཏ (minupta)
infinitive		ནུབ་ཏོ (nupto)

References

G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 117
Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 149

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip.

Pronunciation 1

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Batang: /nuʔ˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /nuʔ˧˩/
Zêkog: /nəp/
Bla-Brang: /nəp/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nu^w, nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˧˩/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nəp/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nəp/

Noun

ནུབ • (nub)

west

See also

compass points: ^[edit]

ནུབ་བྱང (nub byang)	བྱང (byang)	བྱང་ཤར (byang shar)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
ལྷོ་ནུབ (lho nub)	ལྷོ (lho)	ཤར་ལྷོ (shar lho)

Pronunciation 2

Old Tibetan: /*nup/
Lhasa: /nup̚˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nub^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nup̚˩˧˨/

Verb

ནུབ • (nub) (nominal form ནུབ་པ)

(intransitive) to fall (gradually), to sink, to set
(intransitive) to decay, to decline

Conjugation

Conjugation of **ནུབ** (nub)
present	ནུབ (nub)
future	ནུབ (nub)
past	ནུབ (nub)
imperative	ནུབ (nub)

Derived terms

Causative: སྣུབ་པ (snub pa)

References

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