Given name · bo · xsr
ཉི་མ
“sun, day”
ཉི་མ is a unisex given name from Proto-Bodish, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Sherpa and Tibetan.
bo and xsrWritten in Tibetan script. In English: nyi ma.
Meaning & origin
What it means
ཉི་མ goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k), meaning “sun, day.”
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Where it comes from
ཉི་མ comes from Proto-Bodish, and ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
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How it developed
From Proto-Bodish *ni, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku-ni(k) (“sun, day”).
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ཉི་མ’s family of names
In Tibetan usage, ཉི་མ shares a linguistic root with the Burmese form နေ. In Sherpa usage, ཉི་མ can be written in the Roman alphabet as nyi ma.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
ཉི་མ has relatives in 3 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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