ཤ

ཤ U+0F64, ཤ TIBETAN LETTER SHA ← ལ [U+0F63] Tibetan ཥ → [U+0F65]

Translingual

Letter

ཤ

1. Tibetan letter sha

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ/, [ʃɑ]

Letter

ཤ (sha)

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

Dzongkha

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕɑ˥/, [ɕɑ˥]

Letter

ཤ (sha)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Noun

ཤ (sha)

1. meat

References

• Dzongkha Dictionary by the Dzongkha Development Commission, Thimphu 2010

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n. Cognates include Tibetan ཤ (sha), Dzongkha ཤ (sha) and Mandarin 腊 (xī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çə́/

Noun

ཤ (sha)

1. meat

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 215
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕə/, [ɕə]

Letter

ཤ (sha)

1. The thirty-fifth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/, [ʃa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཤ (sha)

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Noun

ཤ (sha) (Devanagari spelling श)

1. meat

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕɐ/, [ɕɐ]

Letter

ཤ (sha)

1. The thirty-first letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɕa/
• Lhasa: /ɕa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɕa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕa˥˥/

Noun

“meat”

Plain	ཤ (sha)
Honorific	གསོལ་དཀྲུམ (gsol dkrum)

ཤ • (sha)

1. meat
2. flesh

References

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