Mongolian edit

MongolianCyrillic
ᠬᠠᠩᠪᠤ
(qaŋbu)
хамба
(xamba)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle Mongol ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu), from Chinese 堪布 (kānbù), from Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po, prior, abbot), originally calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Cognate with Buryat хамба (xamba).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

хамба (xamba)

  1. abbot; prior (of a monastery)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Rybatzki, V. (2006). Die Personennamen und Titel der mittelmongolischen Dokumente: eine lexikalische Untersuchung. The Institute for Asian and African Studies

Tundra Nenets edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samoyedic *kåmpå, from Proto-Uralic *kumpa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [hʌmbʌ]
  • Hyphenation: хам‧ба

Noun edit

хамба (xamba)

  1. wave

References edit

  • Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 40
  • N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “хамба”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN