ཁ

See also: ཁེ

ཁ U+0F41, ཁ TIBETAN LETTER KHA ← ཀ [U+0F40] Tibetan ག → [U+0F42]

Translingual

Letter

ཁ

1. Tibetan letter kha

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰʌ]

Letter

ཁ (kha)

1. The third letter in the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɑ˥/, [kʰɑ˥]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Dzongkha alphabet, named kha

Noun

ཁ (kha)

1. language
2. mouth
3. surface
4. edge, blade

Synonyms

• (mouth): ཞལ (zhal) (formal)
• (blade): རྣོས (rnos)

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka. Cognates include Tibetan ཁ (kha) and Dzongkha ཁ (kha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰə́/

Noun

ཁ (kha) (locative ཁ་ན or ཁ་ནང)

1. mouth
2. language

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 17
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 44

Ladakhi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Ladakhi alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཁ (kha)

1. snow

Sherpa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰa/, [kʰa]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

1. the second letter of the Sherpa alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka.

Noun

ཁ (kha)

1. mouth

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tornadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Sikkimese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɐ/, [kʰɐ]

Etymology 1

Letter

ཁ (kha)

1. The second letter of the Sikkimese alphabet

Etymology 2

Noun

ཁ (kha)

1. mouth

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰa/
• Lhasa: /kʰa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ka^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰa˥˥/

Etymology 1

ཁ • (kha)

1. The second letter of the Tibetan abugida

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-k(w)a-y (“mouth, opening, spread, door, face, jaw”) (STEDT).

Doublet of སྒོ (sgo, “door”). Cognate with Mizo kâ (“mouth”), Mizo kha-bê (“chin”).

Noun

“mouth”

Plain	ཁ (kha)
Honorific	ཞལ (zhal)

ཁ • (kha)

1. mouth
2. speech

Derived terms

• གྲུ་ཁ (gru kha, “shipyard”)

References

• “ཁ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཁ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.