ཕུར་བུ

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pʰur.bu/
• Lhasa: /pʰu˥˥.puˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pʰur.bu/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: pu^f-bu
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰu˥˥.puˑ/

Noun

ཕུར་བུ • (phur bu)

1. religious or ritual dagger
2. Ellipsis of གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ (gza' phur bu, “Thursday”).

Proper noun

ཕུར་བུ • (phur bu)

1. (astronomy) Jupiter
2. a unisex given name: Phurbu

Descendants

• → Mongolian: ᠫᠦᠷᠪᠦ (pürbü) / пүрэв (pürev)