ལྟབ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/l-t(j)ap (“to fold; to repeat; to pile up; layer”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ltap/
Lhasa: /təp̚˥˩/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ltap/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: dacb^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /təp̚˥˩/

Verb

ལྟབ • (ltab) (nominal form ལྟབ་པ)

to fold or gather up
to lay or put together

Conjugation

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Related terms

ལྟབ་མ (ltab ma, “fold, plait, crease”)
ལྟབ་གྲི (ltab gri, “clasp knife”)

References

Heinrich August Jäschke, A Tibetan-English Dictionary, page 228

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