འཁྱག

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ.

Cognate with Chinese 冷 (lěng, “cold”), Lahu gawˬ (“cold, chilly”); also compare Chinese 晾 (liàng, “to dry”), Burmese ခြောက် (hkrauk, “dry”).

Doublet of གྲང (grang).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵑkʰʲak/
• Lhasa: /cʰa(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵑkʰʲak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kyag^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰa(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Verb

འཁྱག • ('khyag) (nominal form འཁྱག་པ)

1. to be cold, to get cold
2. to freeze, to become frozen

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཁྱག

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཁྱག	'khyag
Future	འཁྱག	'khyag
Past	འཁྱགས	'khyags

Derived terms

• འཁྱག་རྒྱག ('khyag rgyag)
• འཁྱག་སྒམ ('khyag sgam)