ཀ

See also: ཀྵ, ག, and གི

ཀ U+0F40, ཀ TIBETAN LETTER KA ← ༿ [U+0F3F] Tibetan ཁ → [U+0F41]

Translingual

Letter

ཀ

1. ka, first letter of the Tibetan abugida

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə/, [kʌ]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

1. The first letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ/, [kɑ˥]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

1. The first letter in the Dzongkha alphabet, named ka

Kurtöp

ཀ་

Etymology

Related to Tibetan གངས (gangs) and Dzongkha ཁཝ (khaw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kə́/

Noun

ཀ (ka)

1. snow

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 5
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ka/
• Lhasa: /ka˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ka/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ga^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥/

Letter

ཀ • (ka)

1. The first letter of the Tibetan abugida.

Suffix

་ཀ • (-ka)

1. prospective verbal suffix: about to

References

• Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (2016 April), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary‎^[1] (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1