ཀ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

Possibly from Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambha, “pillar; support; prop”) (Hill, 2007). Compare Nepali खम्बा (khambā, “pillar; pole”), खामो (khāmo, “pillar; post; stake; prop”), Gujarati ખંભ (khambh, “pillar”), ખંભો (khambho, “pillar”), and Marathi खांब (khāmba, “pillar; post”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ka.ba/
• Lhasa: /kaː˥˥/
• Zêkog: /kɒ.wɒ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ka.ba/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gaa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kaː˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /kɒ.wɒ/

Noun

ཀ་བ • (ka ba)

1. pillar, column, pole, post

Declension

Declension of ཀ་བ (regular stem) 

absolutive	ཀ་བ ka ba
genitive	ཀ་བའི ka ba'i
agentive	ཀ་བས ka bas
dative	ཀ་བ་ལ ka ba la
locative	ཀ་བ་ན ka ba na
terminative	ཀ་བར ka bar
ablative	ཀ་བ་ལས ka ba las
elative	ཀ་བ་ནས ka ba nas
associative	ཀ་བ་དང ka ba dang
comparative	ཀ་བ་བས ka ba bas