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TIBETAN LETTER RA

[U+0F61]
Tibetan
[U+0F63]

Translingual

Letter

  1. Tibetan letter ra

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾɑ/, [ɾɑ]

Letter

(ra)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɑ˥/, [rɑ˥]

Letter

(ra)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(gʷ)ra; cognate to Tibetan འགྲོ ('gro).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [rɐ̀]

Verb

(ra)

  1. (intransitive) to come

Conjugation

Conjugation of (ra)
affirmative negative I negative II
unmarked (ra) མ་ར (mara) མེ་ར (mera)
prospective ར་ཀི་ན (rakina) མ་ར་ཀི་ན (marakina) མེ་ར་ཀི་ན (merakina)
perfective I ར་ས་ར (rasara) མ་ར་ས་ར (marasara) མེ་ར་ས་ར (merasara)
II ར་མུ (ramu)
III ར་ན (rana) མ་ར་ན (marana) མེ་ར་ན (merana)
IV ར་ཤང (rashang) མ་ར་ཤང (marashang) མེ་ར་ཤང (merashang)
V ར་ས་ལ (rasala) མ་ར་ས་ལ (marasala) མེ་ར་ས་ལ (merasala)
mirative ར་ན (rana) མ་ར་ན (marana) མེ་ར་ན (merana)
imperfective egophoric ར་ཏ་ཀི (rataki) མ་ར་ཏ་ཀི (marataki) མེ་ར་ཏ་ཀི (merataki)
non-egophoric ར་ཏ (rata) མ་ར་ཏ (marata) མེ་ར་ཏ (merata)
infinitive ར་རོ (raro)

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 198
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 100

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rə/, [rə]

Letter

(ra)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾa/, [ɾa]

Letter

(ra)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɐ~ɹɐ~ɾɐ/, [rɐ~ɹɐ~ɾɐ]

Letter

(ra)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *ra, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ra; cognate with (OC *draʔ), Pattani , etc.

Pronunciation


Noun

• (ra)

  1. goat

See also

Further reading

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