ཤེལ

Sherpa

Noun

ཤེལ (shel)

1. glass

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɕel/
• Lhasa: /ɕeː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɕel/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xee^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕeː˥˥/

Noun

ཤེལ • (shel)

1. glass
2. crystal
3. mirror

Derived terms

• རྒྱང་ཤེལ (rgyang shel)
• ཆེ་ཤེལ (che shel)
• མཐོང་ཤེལ (mthong shel)
• གདོང་ཤེལ (gdong shel)
• མིག་ཤེལ (mig shel)
• ཤེལ་ཀོ (shel ko)
• ཤེལ་སྒོ (shel sgo)
• ཤེལ་དམ (shel dam)

 

Descendants

• → Bonan: hyil
• → Classical Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠯ (sil)
  • Buryat: шэл (šel)
  • Kalmyk: шил (şil)
  • Mongolian: шил (šil)
• → East Yugur: shel
• → Mangghuer: [Term?] (xier)
• → Mongghul: xal
• → Western Yugur: ʂelə