Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ you have here. The definition of the word Talk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofTalk:ལོ་ཙཱ་བ, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

@Wyang: I see locāva (or something very similar) mentioned on the web and in Tibetan dictionaries, but it doesn't seem to be in the Sanskrit dictionaries I consulted. Do you know what the etymon is supposed to be? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:47, 1 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

The title locāva literally means “bilingual” or “eye of the world”. I think it is from Sanskrit लोकचाक्षुस् (lokacākṣus, eye of the world, i.e. one who opens the eyes of the world) (literal translation: འཇིག་རྟེན་མིག་གཅིག ('jig rten mig gcig)) or a Prakrit derivative of it, for example Pali lokacakkhu. The (ba) may be a Tibetan agent suffix. Wyang (talk) 21:30, 1 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! Does this mean that the dictionaries are just wrong in terms of the form they give? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:31, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
Quite possibly, since we can't verify locaava as a Sanskrit word. This happens quite often in Sanskrit etymologies of the East, unfortunately. Wyang (talk) 12:34, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply