པོ་ཏི

Tibetan

Alternative forms

པུ་ཏི (pu ti), པོད (pod), པུས་ཏི (pus ti), པུས་ཏི་ཀ (pus ti ka)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka, “manuscript, book”), from a Middle Iranian source.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*po.ti/
Lhasa: /pu˥˥.ti˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*po.ti/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: bu^f-di^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pu˥˥.ti˥˥/

Noun

པོ་ཏི • (po ti)

volume, book, scripture

Descendants

→ Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠲᠢ (boti) / боть (botʹ, “tome”)

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