སྐུ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”) and Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sku/
Lhasa: /ku˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sku/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: gu^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ku˥˥/

Noun

སྐུ • (sku)

(honorific) body
image, statue

“body”
Plain	ལུས (lus)
Honorific	སྐུ (sku)

Derived terms

སྐུ་གཟུགས (sku gzugs)
སྐུ་ལུས (sku lus)
སྐུ་སྤུར (sku spur)

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