January 04, 2012

ཆུ།

chu:

1. mig chu (honorific: spyan chab) “eye-water,” i.e. tears. Cf. chu mig “water source”
2. kha chu “mouth-water,” i.e. saliva
3. mna’ chu “oath-water”
4. tsha chu “hot spring”
5. gsang chab (honorific) “secret water,” i.e. urine. But cf. chab gsang (1. urine and feces, 2. toilet)
6. char chu (“rain and water” and “rain water”)
7. dngul chu “silver/silvery water,” i.e. mercury
8. khro chu “liquid or melted bronze” (Jäschke 1881: khro) but perhaps also “lava”
9. ’bab/rgyug chu “folowing/running water,” i.e. river/stream
10. gser chu “gold-water,” i.e. molten gold

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