སྐར་མ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-kar. Cognates include Apatani ta-kɯr, Kinnauri kar, Tshangla karma, Queyu skar⁵⁵ ma⁵⁵.

Noun

སྐར་མ (kārma)

1. star

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Sikkimese སྐར་མོ (skar mo). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skar.ma/
• Lhasa: /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
• Batang: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
• Zêkog: /rkar.ma/
• Bla-Brang: /hkar.ma/
• Arik: /rkar.mæ/
• Maqu: /rkar.ma/
• Mdung-Nag: /ʰkar.ma/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skar.ma/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gaa^f-ma^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hkar.ma/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rkar.mæ/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʰkar.ma/

Noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

1. star
2. minute

Derived terms

• སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od, “starlight”)
• སྐར་མའི་ཆགས་སྟངས (skar ma'i chags stangs, “constellation”)

Proper noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

1. a unisex given name