ཉི་མ

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nji˩.mɑ˩/

Adverb

ཉི་མ (nyi ma)

1. (in the) afternoon

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj.

Noun

ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)

1. sun
2. day

Proper noun

ཉི་མ (nyi ma) (Devanagari spelling ञि म)

1. a unisex given name: Nyima

References

• Nicolas Tournadre, Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, Gyurme Chodrak, Guillaume Oisel (2009) “ཉི་མ”, in Sherpa-English and English Sherpa Dictionary […], Kathmandu: Vajra Publications, →ISBN, page 84

Tibetan

Etymology

ཉི (nyi) is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵi.ma/
• Lhasa: /ȵi˩˨.məˑ/
• Batang: /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
• Dêgê: /ȵi˩˧.ma˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /nə˥˧.wã˥˥/
• Zêkog: /ȵə.ma/
• Bla-Brang: /ȵə.ma/
• Arik: /ȵə.mæ/
• Maqu: /ȵə.ma/
• Ngawa: /ɳə.ma/
• Mdung-Nag: /ȵə.ma/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ȵi.ma/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nyi^v-mac
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵi˩˨.məˑ/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ni˩˧.mɑ˥˥/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵi˩˧.ma˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /nə˥˧.wã˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵə.mæ/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/
  • (Ngawa) IPA^(key): /ɳə.ma/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ȵə.ma/

Noun

ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)

1. sun
2. day
3. Ellipsis of གཟའ་ཉི་མ (gza' nyi ma, “Sunday”).

Derived terms

• ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag, “solstice”)
• ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཤུགས (nyi ma'i 'od shugs, “solar power”)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 尼瑪／尼玛 (Nímǎ)
• → Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠮ᠎ᠠ (nim-a) / ням (njam)

Proper noun

ཉི་མ • (nyi ma)

1. Nyima (a county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
2. a unisex given name: Nyima