མཁོ

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Tibetan

Etymology

Related to འཁོ ('kho, to wish, to want) and possibly དགོས (dgos, to be necessary; must). Compared with Chinese (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good”) (Starostin).

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Verb

མཁོ (mkho) (nominal form མཁོ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to be necessary, to be desirable, to be wished for
    ཉེ་བར་མཁོ་བ
    nye bar mkho ba
    indispensable, most necessary
    རྒྱ་གར་ལ་མཁོ་བའི་སྒྲའི་བཀླག་ཐབས
    rgya gar la mkho ba 'i sgra'i bklag thabs
    pronunciation manual for speech sounds required in India
    དབྱར་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་སྦྲང་ཆར་༎ དགུན་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་ཉི་མ་༎
    dbyar dus mkho ba 'I sbrang char.

dgun dus mkho ba 'I nyi ma.

Rain is needed in summer; Sun is needed in winter. (proverb)

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