ཉེ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီ (ni, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ȵe.ba/
Lhasa: /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ȵe.ba/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nye^v-wa
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵe˩˨.waˑ/

Adjective

ཉེ་བ • (nye ba)

near, close, intimate

Derived terms

ཉེ་ཁོར (nye khor)

References

“ཉེ་བ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
^{Invalid params in call to Template:bo-ref: pg=1173}Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.

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