ཇོ་ཇོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Believed to have originally been a general honorific; compare ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “mistress”) and the semantic development of ཐུ་བོ (thu bo).[1]

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*d͡ʑo.d͡ʑo/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*d͡ʑo.d͡ʑo/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jo^f-jo^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕo˥˥.t͡ɕo˥˨/

Noun

ཇོ་ཇོ • (jo jo)

older brother
Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཕུ་བོ (phu bo), ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific), གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) (literary)
older male cousin
(term of address for a man) brother, sir, mister
Synonyms: ཨ་ཇོ (a jo), ཇོ་བོ (jo bo), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific)

Coordinate terms

མིང་པོ (ming po)

References

Paul K. Benedict (1942) “Tibetan and Chinese Kinship Terms”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 6, number 3/4, Harvard-Yenching Institute, pages 313-337

“ཇོ་ཇོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.

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