འབྲི

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: chi^v, zhi^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

(transitive) to write, to draw, to note down

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབྲི

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབྲི འདྲི བྲི	'bri 'dri bri
Future	བྲི འབྲི	bri 'bri
Past	བྲིས	bris
Imperative	བྲིས ཕྲིས རིས	bris phris ris

Derived terms

དག་ཆ་བྲིས (dag cha bris)
རི་མོ་བྲིས (ri mo bris)

Etymology 2

Resultative of འཕྲི ('phri).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)

Verb

འབྲི • ('bri) (nominal form འབྲི་བ)

(intransitive) to diminish, to grow less, to go down, to decline, to wane

Conjugation

Conjugation of འབྲི

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འབྲི བྲི	'bri bri
Future	འབྲི བྲི	'bri bri
Past	བྲི	bri
Imperative	བྲི	bri

Etymology 3

Either related to or borrowed into Old Chinese as 犛 (OC *rə) > lí.[1]

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbri/
Lhasa: /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵐbri/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: bi^v, zhi^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pi˩˨/, /ʈ͡ʂi˩˨/

Noun

འབྲི • ('bri)

female yak

Coordinate terms

གཡག (g.yag, “male yak”)

Derived terms

འབྲི་མོ ('bri mo)

References

Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 348

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