མཚར་གཟུགས་ལྟ་ཤེལ

Tibetan

Etymology

མཚར་པོ (mtshar po, “strange, wondrous, beautiful”) +‎ གཟུགས (gzugs, “shape, form”) +‎ ལྟ་བ (lta ba, “to look”) +‎ ཤེལ (shel, “glass, crystal”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mt͡sʰar.gzuks.lta.ɕel/
Lhasa: /t͡sʰaː(ɹ)˥˥.su(k̚)ˀˑ.ta˥˥.ɕeːˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mt͡sʰar.gzuks.lta.ɕel/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: car^f-sug-da^f-xee
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰaː(ɹ)˥˥.su(k̚)ˀˑ.ta˥˥.ɕeːˑ/

Noun

མཚར་གཟུགས་ལྟ་ཤེལ • (mtshar gzugs lta shel)

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