སྒྲོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

སྒྲོ (sgro)

  1. A small leather bag.

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 44

Tibetan

Etymology

  • Etymology tree
    Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa
    Tibetan སྒྲོ (sgro)

    Either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa (“feather”), whence Chinese 羽 (Coblin, 1986; Gong Hwang-cherng, 2002; STEDT), or *w(a/u) (“bird; egg; wing; fowl”) (Matisoff, 2000; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2021b; STEDT).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    སྒྲོ • (sgro)

    1. feather

    Verb

    སྒྲོ • (sgro) (nominal form སྒྲོ་བ)

    1. to elevate; to exaggerate

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of སྒྲོ (sgro)
    present སྒྲོ (sgro)
    future བསྒྲོ (bsgro)
    past བསྒྲོས (bsgros)
    imperative སྒྲོ (sgro)
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