རྐང་པ

Ladakhi

Noun

རྐང་པ (rkang pa)

1. foot, leg

Sherpa

Noun

རྐང་པ (rkang pa)

1. foot, leg

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

རྐང (rkang) +‎ པ (pa).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rkaŋ.pa/
• Lhasa: /kaŋ˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Batang: /kõ˥˥ .mba˥˧/
• Dêgê: /kuŋ˥˥. ba˥˧/
• Zêkog: /rkoŋ.ŋwa/
• Bla-Brang: /hkaŋ.wa/
• Arik: /rkoŋ.ŋæ/
• Lahuli–Spiti: /kaŋ.ba/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rkaŋ.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gang^f-ba^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kaŋ˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /kõ˥˥ .mba˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /kuŋ˥˥. ba˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rkoŋ.ŋwa/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hkaŋ.wa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rkoŋ.ŋæ/
• Lahuli–Spiti
  • (Spiti) IPA^(key): /kaŋ.ba/

Noun

རྐང་པ • (rkang pa)

“leg, foot”

Plain	རྐང་པ (rkang pa)
Honorific	ཞབས་པ (zhabs pa)

1. foot, leg

   རྐང་པའི་མཐེ་བོ ― rkang pa 'i mthe bo ― big toe

Derived terms

• རྐང་པ་འཁྱོག (rkang pa 'khyog)
• རྐང་པ་བགྲད (rkang pa bgrad)
• རྐང་པ་རྡབ (rkang pa rdab)