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Dzongkha
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).
Pronunciation
Noun
སྐད (skad)
- voice, sound, cry
- dialect
Tibetan
Etymology
Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and བཀའ (bka', “word; saying; teaching”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).
Pronunciation
Noun
“language, speech”
| Plain
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སྐད (skad)
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| Honorific
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བཀའ (bka')
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སྐད • (skad)
- language
- speech
Declension
Declension of སྐད (regular stem)
Derived terms
- ཡུལ་གོར་སྐད (yul gor skad, “Uyghur language”)
- རྒྱ་སྐད (rgya skad, “Chinese language, Hindi”)
- སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur, “interpreter; translator”)
- ཡུལ་སྐད (yul skad, “dialect”)
- སྐད་གདངས (skad gdangs, “accent”)
- སྐད་ཅོར (skad cor, “noise”)
- སྐད་བརྒྱབ (skad brgyab, “to sing”)
- སྐད་ཡིག (skad yig)
- སྐད་རིགས (skad rigs)
- སྐད་ལ་བཅུག (skad la bcug, “to dub”)
- སྐད་སྒྱུར (skad sgyur)
- སྤྱི་སྐད (spyi skad, “lingua franca”)
References
- “སྐད” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- “སྐད” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.