འཆད

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tset. Resultative of གཅོད (gcod).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰat/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰɛː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰat/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qae^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰɛː˥˨/

Verb

འཆད • ('chad) (nominal form འཆད་པ)

1. (intransitive) to break into pieces, to separate into many sections
2. (intransitive) to be interrupted, to be broken, to be cut off
3. (intransitive) to degenerate, to decay, to cease to exist
4. (intransitive) to be omitted, to be discarded
5. (intransitive) to be incomplete, to be missing

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཆད ('chad)

present	འཆད ('chad)
future	ཆད (chad) འཆད ('chad)
past	ཆད (chad)
imperative	ཆད (chad)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b-tsyat (“to say, speak”) (STEDT), via Proto-Bodish *sʲat. Likely cognate with Old Chinese 說 (OC *hljods, *hljod, *lod, “id”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿt͡ɕʰat/
• Lhasa: /ɕɛː˥˨/, /t͡ɕʰɛː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿt͡ɕʰat/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xae^h, qae^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕɛː˥˨/, /t͡ɕʰɛː˥˨/

Verb

འཆད • ('chad) (nominal form འཆད་པ)

1. (transitive) to explain verbally
2. (transitive) to say, to speak, to tell

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཆད ('chad)

present	འཆད ('chad) ཤོད (shod)
future	བཤད (bshad)
past	བཤད (bshad)
imperative	ཤོད (shod)