སློབ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lwap (“to practice, to learn”).

Verb

སློབ (lo(p))

1. to learn

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lwap (“to practice, to learn”). Compare Chinese 習 (OC *ljub).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zlop/
• Lhasa: /ləp̚˥˨/
• Dêgê: /ɬuʔ˥˧/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zlop/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lacb^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ləp̚˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɬuʔ˥˧/

Verb

སློབ • (slob) (nominal form སློབ་པ)

1. (transitive) to study, to learn
2. (transitive) to teach, to advise

Conjugation

Conjugation of སློབ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སློབ	slob
Future	བསླབ	bslab
Past	སླབས བསླབས སླབ	slabs bslabs slab
Imperative	སློབས སློབ	slobs slob

Derived terms

• སློབ་ཁང (slob khang, “classroom”)
• སློབ་ཁྲིད (slob khrid, “teaching”)
• སློབ་གྲྭ (slob grwa, “school”)
• སློབ་གྲོགས (slob grogs, “school-mate”)
• སློབ་ཕྲུག (slob phrug, “student”)
• སློབ་མ (slob ma, “student”)
• སློབ་ཡ (slob ya, “teacher”)
• སློབ་སྦྱོང (slob sbyong, “study”)

See also

• སློབ་ཁྲིད་བྱེད (slob khrid byed)