སྐུ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”) and Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo, “body”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sku/
Lhasa: /ku˥˥/

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

Noun

“body”
Plain	ལུས (lus)
Honorific	སྐུ (sku)

སྐུ • (sku)

(honorific) body
image, statue
ཤིང་སྐུ ― shing sku ― wooden statue/image

དངུལ་སྐུ ― dngul sku ― silvern statue/image

Derived terms

འདྲ་སྐུ ('dra sku)
སྐུ་གཟུགས (sku gzugs)
སྐུ་བརྙན (sku brnyan)
སྐུ་འདྲ (sku 'dra)
སྐུ་ལུས (sku lus)
སྐུ་སྤུར (sku spur)

References

“སྐུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“སྐུ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

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