See also: མི, མེ, and མོ

མ - Translingual

Letter

  1. Tibetan letter ma

མ - Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑ/, [mɑ]

Letter

(ma)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

མ - Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑ˥/, [mɑ˥]

Letter

(ma)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Dzongkha alphabet

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɑ˩/

Adverb

(ma)

  1. Alternative form of མི (mi, not, non-)

མ - Ladakhi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mə/, [mə]

Letter

(ma)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

མ - Sherpa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/, [ma]

Letter

(ma)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan alphabet

མ - Sikkimese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɐ/, [mɐ]

Letter

(ma)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

མ - Tibetan

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*ma/
  • Lhasa: /ma˥˥/
  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA: /*ma/ (reconstructed)
  • Ü-Tsang
    • Tibetan pinyin: maf
    • (Lhasa) IPA: /ma˥˥/

Letter

(ma)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Tibetan alphabet

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*ma/
  • Lhasa: /ma˩˧/
  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA: /*ma/ (reconstructed)
  • Ü-Tsang
    • Tibetan pinyin: mav
    • (Lhasa) IPA: /ma˩˧/

Noun

(ma)

  1. mother
  2. goddess

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*ma/
  • Lhasa: /ma˩˧/, /ma˥˥/, /m̥a˥˥/
  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA: /*ma/ (reconstructed)
  • Ü-Tsang
    • Tibetan pinyin: mav, maf, mhaf
    • (Lhasa) IPA: /ma˩˧/, /ma˥˥/, /m̥a˥˥/

(Note: mav - before low-tone syllables; maf - before high-tone syllables; mhaf - before high-tone aspirated syllables)

Adverb

(ma)

  1. negates the following verb in the past tense.
    • བལྟས་ཀྱང་མ་མཐོངbltas kyang ma mthongHe looked but did not see it
  2. negates the following verb in the imperative tense; prohibitive particle.
  3. placed between nouns to indicate “neither ... nor ...”.
    • ར་མ་ལུགra ma lugneither a goat nor a sheep

Suffix

(ma)

  1. ownership suffix used to indicate the feminine form of a noun.
    • ཟློས་གར་མzlos gar mafemale singer/dancer

Particle

(ma)

  1. particle affixed to nouns to add a level of specificity or gravity to the noun.
Meaning and Definition of མ
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