How to Say “Girl” in Tibetan

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བུ་མོ
bu mo/*bu.mo/
The Tibetan word for girl is བུ་མོ (bu mo).
བུ་མོ is a noun used to refer to a young female person.
Meaning: young female person (noun)

How do you pronounce it?

The pronunciation is /bu.mo/. It consists of two syllables.

Did you know?

  • The syllable མོ་ is a very common suffix in Tibetan used to transform a masculine noun into a feminine one, much like adding '-ess' to certain English words.
  • In traditional Tibetan kinship terms, བུ་མོ can be used to mean 'daughter' regardless of the child's age.
  • In certain poetic traditions, the concept of a 'girl' or 'young woman' is often metaphorically linked to specific flowers or natural elements through related descriptive adjectives.

Examples in context

  • བུ་མོ་དེ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ལ་འགྲོ་གི་ཡོད།
    bu mo de slob grwa la 'gro gi yod.
    The girl is going to school.

Example conversation

Rinchen and Choesron are talking about a child playing in the park.

  1. རིནཅེན། Rinchen

    བུ་མོ་དེ་སུ་རེད།
    bu mo de su red
    Who is that girl?
  2. ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Choesron

    མོ་རང་ངའི་སྤུན་ཆ་རེད།
    mo rang ngai spun cha red
    She is my relative.
  3. རིནཅེན། Rinchen

    མོ་ལ་ལོ་་ཚད ག་ཚོད་རེད།
    mo la lo tshad ga tshod red
    How old is she?
  4. ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Choesron

    མོ་ལོ་ប្រាំལོ་རེད།
    mo lo pram lo red
    She is five years old.

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