ཀ་འཁོར་བ
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ཀ (ka, name of the first base letter of the Tibetan script) + འཁོར་བ ('khor ba, “samsara, cycle of reincarnation”), Literally, “beginning of alphabet-cycle”.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*ka.ᵑkʰor.ba/
- Lhasa: /ka˥˥.kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥.wa˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gaf-korf-waf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ka˥˥.kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥.wa˥˥/
Noun[edit]
ཀ་འཁོར་བ • (ka 'khor ba)
- beginningless cyclic existence
- cycling from the beginning
- cycling from the first letter of the alphabet [ཀ (ka)]
References[edit]
- Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (2016 April), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary[1] (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1