Save Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Tibetan, Bhutanese Scripts ཕུར་བ(Tibetan) Pronounced Pron. /pʰu˥˥.pʰa˩˨/(Tibetan) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Tibetan ཕུར་བ (phur-ba) referring to a ceremonial three-sided dagger used in Tibetan Buddhist rituals.