Tibetan Vocab 1 Flashcards
Basic consonant based vocab
1
Q
ཁ་
A
“kha” - mouth
2
Q
ཇ་
A
“ja” - tea
3
Q
ཚ་
A
“ts`ha” - salt
4
Q
ར་
A
“ra” - goat
5
Q
བ་ར་
A
“ba-ra” - shed
6
Q
ཟ་མ་
A
“za-ma” - food
7
Q
ང་
A
“nga” - I
8
Q
ཉ་
A
“nya” - fish
9
Q
ཤ་
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“sha” - meat/flesh
10
Q
ཝ་
A
“wa” - fox
11
Q
པ་ཕ་
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“pa-pha” - father
12
Q
ཨ་མ་
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“a-ma” - mother
13
Q
ར་ཤ་
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“ra-sha” - mutton (goat meat?)
14
Q
ཆ་
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“chha” - pair
15
Q
ད་
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“da” - now
16
Q
ས་
A
“sa” - soil, earth
17
Q
ཟ་
A
“za” - eat
18
Q
ཕ་མ་
A
“pha-ma” - parents
19
Q
ག་བ་
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“ga-ba” - where
20
Q
ཉ་ཤ་
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“nya-sha” - fish meat
21
Q
gi gu
A
ཨི (vowel on top) - “ee” sound
22
Q
shab chu
A
ཨུ (vowel underneath) - “oo” sound
23
Q
dreng bu
A
ཨེ (vowel on top) - “ay” (like may) sound
24
Q
na ro
A
ཨོ (vowel on top) - “O” (like no) sound
25
རི་
ra gi gu - "ri" - hill
26
ཆུ་
cha shab chu - "chu" - water
27
མེ་
ma dreng bu - "may" - fire
28
སོ་
sa ra no - "so" - tooth
29
ཁ་ཎ་ཌ་
"ca-'na'-'ta'" - Canada - spelled with reversed ན and ད
30
མོ་ཊ་
"mo-ta" - car - spelled with reversed ཏ
31
ལ་
"la" - mountain pass
32
ཐོ་
"tho" - notes (for remembering)
33
གངས་
"gang" - snow
34
ལམ་སྟོན་པ་
"lam-ton-pa" - counselor, mentor
35
མདོག་ཉེས་
"dog-nyë" - Ugly
36
གྲང་མོ་
"drang-mo" - Cold
37
སེར་པོ་
"ser-po" - yellow
38
དམར་པོ་
"mar-po" - red
39
མག་པོ་
"nag-po" - black
40
དཀར་པོ་
"kar-po" - white
41
ཁབ་
"khap" - needle
