འཁོར་ལོ

Tibetan

Etymology

A relationship with Chinese 軲轆／轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) was proposed in Bauer (1994), and both were hypothesised to have been derived from a common Sino-Tibetan word, borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel”).

Noun

1. wheel
2. vehicle, car, chariot
3. machine, device
4. chakra, cycle

Derived terms

• འཁོར་ལོ་བཀག ('khor lo bkag)