བཀའ

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and སྐད (skad, “language; speech”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Noun

“language, speech”

Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

1. precept, word, order, command
2. instruction, teaching, advice
3. Buddha's words, canonical scriptures
4. Abbreviation of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud, “Kagyu”).
5. Abbreviation of བཀའ་མ (bka' ma, “oral tradition”).

Derived terms

• བཀའ་བསྒོ (bka' bsgo)