ཁ་ལག

Tibetan

Etymology

ཁ (kha, “mouth”) +‎ ལག (lag, “arm, hand”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰa.lak/
• Lhasa: /kha˥˥.la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰa.lak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kha^f-lag^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kha˥˥.la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

ཁ་ལག • (kha lag)

“mouth”

Plain	ཁ (kha)
Honorific	ཞལ (zhal)

1. (Classical) hand and mouth; face and arms
2. (Lhasa, Ü) food

   Synonyms: ལྟོ (lto), (honorific) ཞལ་ལག (zhal lag)

References

• “ཁ་ལག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 173. →ISBN
• Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan‎, Lacito Publications, page 732. →ISBN.