གུར་གུམ
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Tibetan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- གུར་ཀུམ (gur kum)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Persian کرکم (korkom, “saffron”), presumably from Arabic كُرْكُم (kurkum, “turmeric”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ɡur.ɡum/
- Lhasa: /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kuv-gumf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/
Noun[edit]
གུར་གུམ • (gur gum)