ཉེ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီ (ni, “near”) and Chinese 昵 (nì, “intimate, close”).

Adjective

ཉེ་བ • (nye ba)

  1. near, close, intimate
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