ཁངས

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰaŋs/
• Lhasa: /kʰaŋ˥˨/
• Zêkog: /kʰɒŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰaŋs/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kang^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰaŋ˥˨/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /kʰɒŋ/

Noun

ཁངས • (khangs)

1. snow

Synonyms

• ཁ་བ (kha ba)
• གངས (gangs)

Derived terms

• ཁངས་ཀ་ར (khangs ka ra, “white sugar”)
• ཁངས་དཀར་ལྷེབ་ལྷེབ (khangs dkar lheb lheb, “a vast expanse of whiteness”)
• ཁངས་ཁྱག (khangs khyag, “blizzard, snowstorm”)
• ཁངས་གིས་ཞར (khangs gis zhar, “snow blind”)