byi'u

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བྱིའུ
bird, sparrow; little bird, bird, alpine hare; mice [RY]

Little Bird, near Lake Manasarovar [RY]

1) [small/ baby] bird; 2) baby mouse [?]; 3) alpine hare [IW]

bird, sparrow, shrew-rat [JV]

"Little Bird," in the west, built in the form of the Glorious Copper-colored Mountain (zangs mdog dpal ri) upon a heart-shaped rock. It was blessed by Guru Padmasambhava, who is said to have spent seven days there on his way to Chamara, when leaving Tibet; one of the eight monasteries around Manasarovar [MR] [RY]

(med) Sparrow (Passer montanus) (Drungtso 1999)
Synonym : bye'u (Yeshi 2017), nas zen, mchil ba (Drungtso 1999).

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_028) byi'u (23_108) byi'u'i sha

mchil ba, nas zan and byi'u are basically synonymous for sparrows. Jamp-dpal gives 'Indian mchil ba' for mchil ba, and 'Tibetan mchil ba' for nas zan.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 17:18, 3 December 2021 (UTC)