Where does “འབྲས་བུ” come from?

འབྲས་བུ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འབྲས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-ras — rice; fruit; round object.

འབྲས་བུ (Tibetan): fruit; effect, result, consequence

Definitions

  1. fruit; effect, result, consequence

Ancestry of “འབྲས་བུ”, step by step

འབྲས་བུ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan འབྲས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྲསrice; fruit
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-rasrice; fruit; round object

via Tibetan བུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanབུson, child
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