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Number: 1900
Character: 蒲
MC description : 遇合一平模並
ZIHUI: 5543 0744
Beijing: phu 12
Jinan: phu 12
Xi'an: phu 12
Taiyuan: phu 1
Hankou: phu 12
Chengdu: phu 12
Yangzhou: phu 12
Suzhou: bu 12
Wenzhou: bu 12
Changsha: pu 12
Shuangfeng: bu 12
Nanchang: phu 12
Meixian: phu 12
Guangzhou: phou 12
Xiamen: pɔ 12
Chaozhou: phou 21
Fuzhou: puɔ 12
Shanghai: pu 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: phu 12
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Character: 蒲
Modern (Beijing) reading: pú
Preclassic Old Chinese: bhā
Classic Old Chinese: bhā
Western Han Chinese: bhā
Eastern Han Chinese: bhā
Early Postclassic Chinese: bhō
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhō
Late Postclassic Chinese: bhō
Middle Chinese: bo
English meaning : cattail (Typha latifolia)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) тростник, камыш; 2) ползти на четвереньках; 3) Пу (фамилия)
Comments: For *bh cf. Chaozhou phu2.
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 3659
Vietnamese reading: bồ
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wā
Meaning: cane, bamboo
Tibetan: spa, sba cane.
Burmese: wah bamboo, LB *wax.
Kachin: kǝwa3 bamboo.
Lushai: rua (ro) a bamboo, KC *k-wa(?).
Comments: BG: Garo waʔa, Dimasa wa; Moshang wa; Namsangia va; ? PG *mà cane (like bamboo). Sh. 431; Ben. 24; Mat. 193; Luce 8; Coblin 38-39 (compares OCh. 笆 *prā, *phrās a k. of prickly bamboo).
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *[ʔp]a
Meaning: bamboo
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Limbu dictionary :
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Entry: pha
Grammar: n.
Meaning: bamboo.
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Dumi dictionary :
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Entry: phapoʔo
Grammar: n.
Meaning: bamboo culm sheath, which are shed as the bamboo plant grows, often covered with pigmented glass hairs
Nepali: bāʔs paṭyāʔs, bāʔsko khapiṭā
Derivation: [< *pha 'bamboo'; cf. Limbu pha 'bamboo', phahok 'bamboo culm sheath', phanOk 'bamboo shoot']
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Kulung dictionary :
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Entry: baphu
Grammar: n.
Meaning: bamboo
Nepali: bāṃs.
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Yamphu dictionary :
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Entry: pak
Grammar: n.
Meaning: a kind of bamboo
Comments: also cu:bhu.
Nepali: māliŋgo
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *wēχU
Meaning: grass, reed
Comments and references : In NC cf. also *bV̆hV ( ~ w-) 2193 - same root?
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *wēχU
Meaning: grass
Notes: A Tsez-WC isogloss. Correspondences are regular, but the etymology is somewhat dubious - because of the root's restricted distribution and its homonymy with *χIʷǝ 'graze' in PWC.
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Tsezian etymology :
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Proto-Tsezian: *bǝχ:
Meaning: 1 grass 2 hay
Tsezi: biχ 2
Ginukh: beχ 1,2
Khvarshi: baχ 1,2
Inkhokvari: boχ 1,2
Bezhta: boχ 1,2
Gunzib: bǝχ 1,2
Comments: PTsKh *bǝχ; PGB *bǝχ. Cf. also Bezht. Tlad. boχala-ukos 'yellow' ("hay-coloured").
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *χʷǝ ( ~ *χ́ʷ,*χIʷ)
Meaning: 1 grass 2 meadow grass
Abaza: ħʷ-ra 1
Kabardian: χʷǝ-n 2
Comments: The root formally coincides with PWC *χIʷV 'to graze' (q.v.); this is probably secondary.
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