ནུབ

See also: ན་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip.

Pronunciation 1

• Old Tibetan: /*nup/
• Lhasa: /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
• Batang: /nuʔ˨˧˩/
• Dêgê: /nuʔ˧˩/
• Zêkog: /nəp/
• Bla-Brang: /nəp/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nu^w, nub^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nu˩˧˨/, /nup̚˩˧˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˨˧˩/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /nuʔ˧˩/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /nəp/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /nəp/

Noun

ནུབ • (nub)

1. west

See also

• (compass points)

	བྱང (byang)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
	ལྷོ (lho)

Pronunciation 2

• Old Tibetan: /*nup/
• Lhasa: /nup̚˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*nup/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nub^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /nup̚˩˧˨/

Verb

ནུབ • (nub) (nominal form ནུབ་པ)

1. (intransitive) to fall (gradually), to sink, to set
2. (intransitive) to decay, to decline

Conjugation

Conjugation of ནུབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ནུབ	nub
Future	ནུབ	nub
Past	ནུབ	nub
Imperative	ནུབ	nub

Derived terms

• Causative: སྣུབ་པ (snub pa)