ཁབ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-ra(p/m) (“needle”); compare Chinese 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums), Burmese အပ် (ap).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰap/
• Lhasa: /kʰəp̚˥˨/
• Batang: /kʰɑuʔ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /kʰɑʔ˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /kʰo˥˧/
• Zêkog: /kʰap/
• Bla-Brang: /kʰap/
• Arik: /kʰap/
• Mdung-Nag: /kʰap/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰap/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kacb^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰəp̚˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /kʰɑuʔ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /kʰɑʔ˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /kʰo˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /kʰap/

Noun

ཁབ • (khab)

1. needle

Derived terms

• ཁབ་གཟེར (khab gzer, “pin”)
• སྨན་ཁབ (sman khab, “hypodermic needle”)