རྐུ

See also: རྣ་བ, རྨུ་བ, རྩ་བ, and རྩི་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-kəw ~ hu (“to steal”). Cognate with Burmese ခိုး (hkui:, “to steal”), Nuosu ꈐ (ku), ꈏꐷ (kux njie, “to steal”), Naxi kv (“to steal”), Jingpho lägu (“to steal”), Drung keu (“to steal”), Yakkha खुमा (khuma, “to steal”) and Chinese 寇 (OC *kʰoːs, “to rob”). Related to རྐུན་མ (rkun ma, “robber, thief”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rku/
Lhasa: /ku˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rku/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gu^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ku˥˥/

Verb

རྐུ • (rku) (nominal form རྐུ་བ)

(transitive) to steal, to rob

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྐུ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྐུ	rku
Future	བརྐུ	brku
Past	བརྐུས	brkus
Imperative	རྐུས	rkus

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