thi ba

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ཐི་བ
sandpiper, stock dove, plover, lapwing, SA the ba [JV]

wood-pigeon, stock-dove, plover, pewit, lap wing [RY]

1) pigeon; 2) swallow [IW]

1) pigeon; 2) swallow [wood-pigeon, stock-dove, plover, peewit, lap wing] [IW]

(med) Dove (Drungtso 1999). Synonyms : phu tig, phu phu ti ti, ti ti phu phu, thi gu (Jam-dpal)
phu tig ni / phu phu ti ti 'am ti ti phu phu zer ba phug ron tsam la skad phu phu zer ba yin te / bshad rgyud kyi byi'u'i sde bshad skabs thi gu zhes gsungs ba de yin la / shel sgong las / phu tig ne tso khyim bya gong ma sreg / sha yis lus yang rtsal stobs shu kra skyed // ces so // (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, pdf p 253)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (23_025) thi ba. Jam-dpal (pdf p 253) phu tig

thi ba denotes a dove, which corresponds more to the illustrations. Plovers (gzi thing) are wading birds with longer legs (David Holler, tibetbirds).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 16:53, 17 February 2024 (EST)