хамба

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Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
ᠬᠠᠩᠪᠤ
(qangbu)
хамба
(xamba)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Mongol ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu), from Chinese 堪布 (kānbù), from Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po, prior, abbot), originally calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Cognate with Buryat хамба (xamba).

Pronunciation

Noun

хамба (xamba)

  1. abbot; prior (of a monastery)

Declension

References

  • Rybatzki, V. (2006). Die Personennamen und Titel der mittelmongolischen Dokumente: eine lexikalische Untersuchung. The Institute for Asian and African Studies

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *kåmpå, from Proto-Uralic *kompa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: хам‧ба

Noun

хамба (xamba)

  1. wave

References

  • Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь, Moscow: Огиз, page 40
  • N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “хамба”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN