མཁན་སྐྱ

Tibetan

མཁན་སྐྱ

Alternative forms

• འཁན་སྐྱ ('khan skya)

Etymology

མཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “artemisia”) +‎ སྐྱ་བོ (skya bo, “grey”), due to the pale color of and and grey hairs on its leaves.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.skʲa/
• Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.skʲa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-gya
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.caˑ/

Noun

མཁན་སྐྱ • (mkhan skya)

1. Artemisia sieversiana

Coordinate terms

• མཁན་ནག (mkhan nag)
• མཁན་དཀར (mkhan dkar)
• མཁན་དམར (mkhan dmar)

References

• “མཁན་སྐྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.