སྐུ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”).

Noun

སྐུ (sku)

  1. statue

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 20

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

Noun

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

སྐུ • (sku)

  1. (honorific) body
  2. image, statue
    ཤིང་སྐུ ― shing sku ― wooden statue/image
    དངུལ་སྐུ ― dngul sku ― silvern statue/image

Derived terms

References

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