གུར་གུམ

Tibetan edit

Alternative forms edit

གུར་ཀུམ (gur kum)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian (korkom, “saffron”), presumably from Arabic كُرْكُم (kurkum, “turmeric”).

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*ɡur.ɡum/
Lhasa: /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɡur.ɡum/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ku^v-gum^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/

Noun edit

གུར་གུམ • (gur gum)

saffron

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=གུར་གུམ&oldid=78173129"