མཁན་སྐྱ
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Artemisia_sieversiana_kz01.jpg/220px-Artemisia_sieversiana_kz01.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]- འཁན་སྐྱ ('khan skya)
Etymology
[edit]མཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “artemisia”) + སྐྱ་བོ (skya bo, “grey”), due to the pale color of and and grey hairs on its leaves.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.skʲa/
- Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kaenf-gya
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/
Noun
[edit]མཁན་སྐྱ • (mkhan skya)
Coordinate terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “མཁན་སྐྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.