ཀ་འཁོར་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཀ (ka, name of the first base letter of the Tibetan script) +‎ འཁོར་བ ('khor ba, “samsara, cycle of reincarnation”), Literally, “beginning of alphabet-cycle”.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ka.ᵑkʰor.ba/
• Lhasa: /ka˥˥.kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥.wa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ka.ᵑkʰor.ba/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ga^f-kor^f-wa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥.wa˥˥/

Noun

ཀ་འཁོར་བ • (ka 'khor ba)

1. beginningless cyclic existence
2. cycling from the beginning
3. cycling from the first letter of the alphabet [ཀ (ka)]

References

• Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (2016 April), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary‎^[1] (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1