ཁོལ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)(j)wal (“slave; servant”) (STEDT). Cognate with Burmese ကျွန် (kywan, “slave”), Proto-Loloish *C-kywan¹ (“slave”), Chinese 宦 (OC *ɡʷraːns), 倌 (OC *koːn, *kroːns).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰol/
• Lhasa: /kʰøː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰol/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: koe^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰøː˥˥/

Noun

ཁོལ • (khol)

1. slave, servant
2. piece, fragment, bit

Derived terms

• ཁོལ་རྒྱུད (khol rgyud)
• ཁོལ་བུ (khol bu)
• ཁོལ་བྲན (khol bran)

 

Related terms

• ཁོལ་པོ (khol po)
• ཁོལ་མོ (khol mo)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰol/
• Lhasa: /kʰøː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰol/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: koe^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰøː˥˥/

Verb

ཁོལ • (khol)

1. Alternative spelling of འཁོལ ('khol)
2. past of འཁོལ ('khol)
3. imperative of འགེལ ('gel)
4. imperative of བཀོལ (bkol)

References

• “ཁོལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.