སྦི་ཅི་ལི

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बिजली (bijlī, “electricity”).

Pronunciation

Lhasa: /pi˩˧.t͡ɕi˥˥.liˑ/

Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: bi^v-ji^f-li
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pi˩˧.t͡ɕi˥˥.liˑ/

Noun

སྦི་ཅི་ལི • (sbi ci li)

(colloquial) torch, flashlight

Derived terms

སྦི་ཅི་ལིའི་སྨན (sbi ci li'i sman, “battery”)

See also

གློག་ཞུ (glog zhu)

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