མཁན་དཀར

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Tibetan[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

འཁན་དཀར ('khan dkar)

Etymology[edit]

མཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “Artemisia, Ajania”) +‎ དཀར་པོ (dkar po, “white”), due to its whitish leaves.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.tkar/
Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.kaː(ɹ)ˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.tkar/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-gar
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.kaː(ɹ)ˑ/

Noun[edit]

མཁན་དཀར • (mkhan dkar)

Coordinate terms[edit]

མཁན་ནག (mkhan nag)
མཁན་སྐྱ (mkhan skya)
མཁན་དམར (mkhan dmar)

References[edit]

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

^ Boesi, Alessandro (2007) “The Nature of Tibetan Plant Nomenclature”, in The Tibet Journal‎^[1], volume 32, number 1, →ISSN, retrieved 7 March 2024, pages 3–28

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