ཉ

ཉ U+0F49, ཉ TIBETAN LETTER NYA [unassigned: U+0F48] ← ཇ [U+0F47] Tibetan ཊ → [U+0F4A]

Translingual

Letter

ཉ

1. Tibetan letter nya

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲə/, [ɲʌ]

Letter

ཉ (nya)

1. The eleventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲɑ/, [ɲɑ˥]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཉ (nya)

1. The seventh letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

Noun

ཉ (nya)

1. fish

Kurtöp

ཉ་

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja. Cognates include Dzongkha ཉ (nya) and Tibetan ཉ (nya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲə̀/

Noun

ཉ (nya)

1. fish

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 63
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 35

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲə/, [ɲə]

Letter

ཉ (nya)

1. The eighth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲa/, [ɲa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཉ (nya)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

Noun

ཉ (nya)

1. fish

References

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

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲɐ/, [ɲɐ]

Letter

ཉ (nya)

1. The eighth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵa/
• Lhasa: /ȵa˥˥/

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

Letter

ཉ • (nya)

1. The eighth letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵa/
• Lhasa: /ȵa˩˨/
• Batang: /ȵa˨˧˩/
• Dêgê: /ȵa˩˧/
• Zêkog: /ȵa/
• Bla-Brang: /ȵa/
• Arik: /ȵæ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ȵa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nya^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵa˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵa˨˧˩/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵa˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵa/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵæ/

Noun

ཉ • (nya)

1. fish

Derived terms

• ཉ་པ (nya pa)
• ཉ་ཕྱིས (nya phyis)
• ཉ་ཤ (nya sha)
• སྦྲུལ་ཉ (sbrul nya)
• གསེར་ཉ (gser nya)

 

References

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