ཁམ་བུ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

ཁམ་བུ (kham bu)

References

Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 27

Tibetan

Etymology

ཁམ (kham) +‎ བུ (bu)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰam.bu/
Lhasa: /kʰəm˥˥.puˑ/
Batang: /kha⁵⁵ mbu⁵³/
Dêgê: /khɑŋ⁵⁵ bu⁵³/
Zêkog: /kha mbə/
Bla-Brang: /kham bə/
Arik: /kam mbo/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰam.bu/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kacm^f-bu
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰəm˥˥.puˑ/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /kha⁵⁵ mbu⁵³/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /khɑŋ⁵⁵ bu⁵³/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /kha mbə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /kham bə/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /kam mbo/

Noun

ཁམ་བུ • (kham bu)

peach (Prunus persica)
(chiefly Amdo) apricot (Prunus armeniaca)

Derived terms

ཁམ་བུ་ལྡུམ་ར (kham bu ldum ra)
ཁམ་བུ་དབང་ཐའོ (kham bu dbang tha'o)
ཁམ་བུ་སྨི་ཧོའུ (kham bu smi ho'u)
ཁམ་བུ་ཞིག (kham bu zhig)
ཁམ་བུ་རག་ཤ (kham bu rag sha)
ཁམ་བུ་རི་ཁམ (kham bu ri kham)
མངའ་རིས་ཁམ་བུ (mnga' ris kham bu)

References

“ཁམ་བུ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 116. →ISBN
Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan, Lacito Publication. Page 837. →ISBN