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Tibetan
Etymology
Cognate with Burmese ခေါင် (hkaung, “ridge of the roof”) (Hill, 2019).
Etymology
Noun
ཁང • (khang)
- (in compounds) house, building (See ཁང་པ (khang pa, “house, building”).)
Derived terms
- ཁང་བདག (khang bdag, “landlord”)
- ཁང་མིག (khang mig, “room”)
- གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
- འགྲིམ་འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grim 'grul khang, “travel agency”)
- འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang, “inn, guest-house, hotel”)
- འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང ('grems ston khang, “museum”)
- དངུལ་ཁང (dngul khang, “bank”)
- ཆང་ཁང (chang khang, “pub”)
- མཆོད་ཁང (mchod khang)
- སྦྲག་ཁང (sbrag khang, “post office”)
- སྨན་ཁང (sman khang, “hospital”)
- སྨན་བཅོས་ཁང (sman bcos khang, “clinic”)
- སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang, “pharmacy”)
- བཙོན་ཁང (btson khang, “jail”)
- རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
- ཚོང་ཁང (tshong khang, “shop, store”)
- ལྷ་ཁང (lha khang, “temple”)