ས

See also: སོ and སུ

ས U+0F66, ས TIBETAN LETTER SA ← ཥ [U+0F65] Tibetan ཧ → [U+0F67]

Translingual

Letter

ས

1. Tibetan letter sa

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]

Letter

ས (sa)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ˥/, [sɑ˥]

Letter

ས (sa)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sa-j. Cognates include Tibetan ས (sa) and Dzongkha ས (sa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə́/

Noun

ས (sa) (genitive-ergative སའི, locative ས་ཀོ or ས་ན)

1. earth
2. land
3. place
4. soil

References

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2011) A Grammar of Kurtöp (PhD thesis)‎^[1], page 124
• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 220

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə/, [sə]

Letter

ས (sa)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa/, [sa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ས (sa)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognates include Jingpho wa (“tooth”), Burmese သွား (swa:), Tibetan སོ (so).

Noun

ས (sa) (Devanagari spelling स)

1. tooth

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ/, [sɑ]

Letter

ས (sa)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sa/
• Lhasa: /sa˥˥/

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

Noun

ས • (sa)

1. earth, land, soil, ground

Derived terms

• ས་ཁུལ (sa khul)