བྱ

See also: བ, བཱུ, བྷ, and བློ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bja ~ bra (“bird”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*bʲa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bʲa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: qa^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Noun

བྱ • (bya)

bird

Derived terms

བྱ་འཕིར (bya 'phir, “kite”)
བྱ་རྒོད (bya rgod, “vulture”)
བྱ་སྤུ (bya spu, “down”)
བྱ་སྒྲོ (bya sgro, “feather”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

Old Tibetan: /*bʲa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕa˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bʲa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: ja^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕa˥˥/

Suffix

བྱ • (bya)

placed after certain verbs to produce nouns

Pronunciation 2

Old Tibetan: /*bʲa/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰe˩˧˨/, /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bʲa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: qe^w, qa^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰe˩˧˨/, /t͡ɕʰa˩˧/

Verb

བྱ • (bya) (nominal form བྱ་བ)

future of བྱེད (byed)

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