ཆུ

ཆུ (chu)

1. Tibetan-script spelling of چھو (“water”)

• Peter C. Backstrom, and Carla F. Radloff Languages of northern areas: Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 2 (1992; SIL) (notes that this form is used in all dialect areas)
• R. K. Sprigg, Balti-English / English-Balti Dictionary: chu

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰu˥/

ཆུ (chu)

1. water
2. urine

   Synonym: ཆབ་གསང་བསྡུསཔ (chab gsang bsdusp)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

ཆུ (chu)

1. water
2. river

• August Hermann Francke, A Lower Ladakhi Version of the Kesar Saga
• Bettina Zeisler, Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi, in Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰu/

ཆུ (chu) (Devanagari spelling छ्यु)

1. water

• Lhakpa Doma Sherpa, Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka), Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak), Sherpa Conversation & Basic Words (2006), page 148

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

• IPA^(key): /tɕʰu/

ཆུ (chu)

1. water

• Juha Yliniemi, A Descriptive Grammar of Denjongke (Sikkimese Bhutia). (2021)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”). Compare Chinese 斗 (dǒu, “ladle”), 注 (zhù, “to pour”).

ཆུ • (chu)

1. water
2. river

• “ཆུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཆུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsju (“water, liquid, body fluid”).

ཆུ (chu)

1. water

• Zanskari - English dictionary - Karsha au Zanskar