གུར་གུམ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• གུར་ཀུམ (gur kum)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

གུར་གུམ • (gur gum)

1. saffron