Week 4 Ba, Punctuation, and Digits Flashcards
1
Q
What is the general pronunciation rule for Ba at the end of a word?
A
If a word’s ultima is ba or bo without suffix, it’s pronounced wa or wo, usu. when previous syllable ends nga, ‘a, ra, or la
2
Q
རེ་བ་
A
hope
re wa
(re ba)
3
Q
དཔའ་བོ་
A
hero
pa wo
(dp’a bo)
4
Q
རྒྱལ་བ་
A
victorious
gyel wa
(rgyal ba)
5
Q
ཁམ་བུ་
A
peach
kham bu
(kham bu)
6
Q
རབ་བི་རིབ་བི་
A
unclear
rab bi rib bi
(rab bi rib bi)
7
Q
ས་བོན་
A
seed
sa bön
(sa bon)
8
Q
སྣུམ་བན་
A
oil container
num ben
(snum ban)
9
Q
Rule for Ba as root letter preceded by da
A
pronounced wa; but with vowel or subfix ya (bya) and ra (bra) the consonant is silent.
10
Q
དབེན་པ།
A
isolation
en pa
(dben pa)
11
Q
དབང་།
A
power
wang
(dbang)
12
Q
དབྱིབས།
A
shape
yib
(dbyibs)
13
Q
དབྱིངས།
A
sphere, dimension
ying
(dbyings)
14
Q
དབུ་མ།
A
middle way
u ma
(dbu ma)
15
Q
དབྱངས་ཅན།
A
Sarasvati
yang chen
(dbyangs can)
