ཐ་མག
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Mongol ᠲᠠᠮᠠᠬᠢ (tamaki, “tobacco”), from Persian تنباکو (tanbâku), from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq), perhaps via an Indo-Aryan intermediary. Compare Old Marathi तमाखु (tamākhu), Gujarati તમાકુ (tamāku), Hindustani تَنبَاکُو (tanbākū) / तंबाकू (tambākū), Kannada ತಂಬಾಕು (tambāku), Sindhi تَماڪُ / तमाकु, Punjabi ਤਮਾਕੂ (tamākū) / تَمباکُو (tambākū), Maithili तमाकुल (tamākul) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒳𑒪 (tamākula), तमाकू (tamākū) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒴 (tamākū), Odia ତମାଖୁ (tômakhu), Bengali তামাক (tamak).
Noun[edit]
ཐ་མག • (tha mag)
Derived terms[edit]
- ཐ་མག་བརྡབ་ས (tha mag brdab sa, “ashtray”)
See also[edit]
- ཤོག་དྲིལ་དུ་བ (shog dril du ba)
- བཞེས་ཐག (bzhes thag)