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See also: སོ and སུ
U+0F66, ས
TIBETAN LETTER SA

[U+0F65]
Tibetan
[U+0F67]

Translingual[edit]

Letter[edit]

  1. Tibetan letter sa

Balti[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

(sa)

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

Dzongkha[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

(sa)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Kurtöp[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

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

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

(sa)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Sherpa[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Letter[edit]

(sa)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

(sa) (Devanagari spelling )

  1. tooth

Sikkimese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

(sa)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Tibetan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]


Noun[edit]

(sa)

  1. earth, land, soil, ground

Derived terms[edit]