ཀ

See also: ཀྵ, ག, and གི

ཀ	U+0F40, ཀ TIBETAN LETTER KA

← ༿
[U+0F3F]

Tibetan

ཁ →
[U+0F41]

Translingual

Letter

ཀ

ka, first letter of the Tibetan abugida

Balti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kə/, [kʌ]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

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

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɑ/, [kɑ˥]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

The first letter in the Dzongkha alphabet, named ka

Kurtöp

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

Noun

ཀ (ka)

snow

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan བཀའ (bka').

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

Noun

ཀ (ka)

order, command

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

Adjective

ཀ (ka)

difficult

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Tibetan ཀ (ka).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

Noun

ཀ (ka)

The first letter of the Tibetan script: ka

References

Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32
G. Hyslop; K. Lhendrup; K. Tshering; P. Chhophyel (2022), “ka”, in Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary, page 5

Sikkimese

Letter

ཀ (ka)

The first letter in the Sikkimese alphabet.

References

Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 17

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ka/
Lhasa: /ka˥˥/

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

Letter

ཀ • (ka)

The first letter of the Tibetan abugida.

Descendants

→ Kurtöp: ཀ (ka)

Suffix

་ཀ • (-ka)

prospective verbal suffix: about to

References

Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (April 2016), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary‎^[2] (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1