ᰛᰫᰓᰦ

Lepcha

Etymology

From Tibetan རུས་སྦལ (rus sbal, “turtle, tortoise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ru.ba/

Noun

ᰛᰫᰓᰦ (rúbá)

  1. tortoise

Further reading

  • Tamsang, Aathing K. P. (2009), The Lepcha-English Encyclopaedic Dictionary, second edition, page 662
  • Plaisier, Heleen (2007), A grammar of Lepcha (Tibetan studies library: Languages of the greater Himalayan region)‎[1], volume 5, BRILL, →ISBN, pages 86, 234
  • Mainwaring, George Byres (1898), “*ro-ba”, in Albert Grünwedel, editor, Dictionary of the Lepcha-language‎[2], Berlin: Unger Brothers, page 338
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