འབྲུག་ཚགས

Tibetan

Etymology

འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon”) +‎ ཚགས (tshags, “sieve, filter”). Compare འབྲུག་མིག ('brug mig, “longan”).

Pronunciation

  • Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂu˩˨ t͡sʰa(k̚)ˀˑ/

Noun

འབྲུག་ཚགས • ('brug tshags)

  1. lychee, Litchi chinensis
    • 2017 June 9, “Archived copy”, in People's Daily Online‎[1], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:
      ཀོང་ཤིས་ལིང་ཧྲན་རྫོང་གི་འབྲུག་ཚགས་གཅིག་རྗེས་གཉིས་མཐུད་ངང་ཁྲོམ་རར་བཏོན་པ།
      kong shis ling hran rdzong gi 'brug tshags gcig rjes gnyis mthud ngang khrom rar bton pa
      Lychees from Lingshan County, Guangxi, continue to be brought successively to market.

Synonyms

  • ལི་ཀྲི (li kri)
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