ཁ

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See also: ཁེ
ཁ U+0F41, ཁ
TIBETAN LETTER KHA
← ཀ
 		Tibetan ག →

Translingual

Letter

ཁ

  1. Tibetan letter kha

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ཁ (kha)

  1. The third letter in the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

  1. The second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet, named kha

Noun

ཁ (kha)

  1. language
  2. mouth
  3. surface
  4. edge, blade

Synonyms

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka. Cognates include Tibetan ཁ (kha) and Dzongkha ཁ (kha).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཁ (kha) (locative ཁ་ན or ཁ་ནང)

  1. mouth
  2. language

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 17
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 44

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

  1. The second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཁ (kha)

  1. snow

Sherpa

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

  1. the second letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka.

Noun

ཁ (kha)

  1. mouth

References

  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tornadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

  1. The second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཁ (kha)

  1. mouth

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

ཁ • (kha)

  1. The second letter of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-k(w)a-y (“mouth, opening, spread, door, face, jaw”) (STEDT).

Doublet of སྒོ (sgo, “door”). Cognate with Mizo kâ (“mouth”), Mizo kha-bê (“chin”).

Noun

“mouth”
Plain ཁ (kha)
Honorific ཞལ (zhal)

ཁ • (kha)

  1. mouth
  2. speech
Derived terms

References

  • “ཁ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • “ཁ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
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