ཁྱིམ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum.

Noun

ཁྱིམ (khim)

1. house, home

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰʲim/
• Lhasa: /cʰim˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰʲim/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kyim^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰim˥˥/

Noun

ཁྱིམ • (khyim)

1. house, residence, home, household
2. See ཁྱིམ་ཐབས (khyim thabs, “wife”).

Derived terms

• ཁྱིམ་ཚང (khyim tshang)
• ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད (khyim rgyud)
• ཁྱིམ་ཞག (khyim zhag)
• ཁྱིམ་པ (khyim pa)
• ཁྱིམ་སོ (khyim so)
• ཁྱིམ་ཐབ (khyim thab)
• ཁྱིམ་གནས (khyim gnas)
• ཁྱིམ་གཙོ (khyim gtso)
• ཁྱིམ་གྲོང (khyim grong)