Save Type Settlement Usage Bhutanese, Tibetan, English Scripts ཐིམ་ཕུ(Dzongkha, Tibetan) Pronounced Pron. /tɪm.ˈpuː/(English) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Bhutanese ཐིམ་ (thim) meaning "to sink" and ཕུ་ (phu) meaning "high ground, foothill, upland" or "to fly". This is the name of the capital city of Bhutan.