ཆུ

See also: ཆཱོ, ཆ, ཚི, ཚ, and ཚོ

Balti

Noun

ཆུ (čʰu)

water

References

Peter C. Backstrom, and Carla F. Radloff Languages of northern areas: Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2 (1992; SIL) (notes that this form is used in all dialect areas)
R. K. Sprigg, Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary: chu

Dzongkha

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

water

References

Ladakhi

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

water

References

August Hermann Francke, A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga
Bettina Zeisler, Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

Sherpa

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

water

Reference

Lhakpa Doma Sherpa, Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka), Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak), Sherpa Conversation & Basic Words (2006), page 148

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (“ladle”), 注 (“to pour”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰu/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*t͡ɕʰu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: qu^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥˥/

Noun

“water”
Plain	ཆུ (chu)
Honorific	ཆབ (chab)

ཆུ • (chu)

water
river

Derived terms

Terms derived from ཆུ (chu)

གཙང་ཆུ (gtsang chu, “river”)
ཆུ་ཆེན (chu chen, “river”)
ཆུ་དོང (chu dong)
ཆུ་བོ (chu bo, “river”)
ཆུ་མིག (chu mig, “spring”)

ཆུ་ཟོམ (chu zom, “bucket”)
ཆུ་ལོག (chu log, “flood”)
ཆུ་ལྒང (chu lgang, “blister”)
ཆུ་སེར (chu ser, “lymph”)
ཆུ་སྒྲོམ (chu sgrom, “cistern”)

བབས་ཆུ (babs chu, “waterfall”)
འཐོར་ཆུ ('thor chu, “shower”)
རྫ་ཆུ (rdza chu, “Mekong”)
སྦྲུལ་སོའི་དུག་ཆུ (sbrul so'i dug chu, “venom”)

Zangskari

Noun

ཆུ (chu)

water

References

Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar

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