མཁན་སྐྱ
Tibetan
editAlternative forms
edit- འཁན་སྐྱ ('khan skya)
Etymology
editམཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “artemisia”) + སྐྱ་བོ (skya bo, “grey”), due to the pale color of and and grey hairs on its leaves.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.skʲa/
- Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kaenf-gya
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/
Noun
editམཁན་སྐྱ • (mkhan skya)
Coordinate terms
editReferences
edit- “མཁན་སྐྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.