ཁྲག

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak.

Noun

ཁྲག (khrag)

1. blood

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak.

Noun

ཁྲག (thrak)

1. blood

References

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

Tibetan

“blood”

Plain	ཁྲག (khrag)
Honorific	སྐུ་ཁྲག (sku khrag)
High Honorific	སྐུ་མཚལ (sku mtshal)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak (“blood; red”). Cognate with Chinese 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ, “red”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰrak/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˨/
• Batang: /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
• Zêkog: /c͡çʰak/
• Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰak/
• Arik: /c͡çʰak/
• Maqu: /t͡ɕʰak/
• Ngawa: /ʈ͡ʂʰak/
• Mdung-Nag: /t͡ɕʰɐk/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰrak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: cha^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /c͡çʰak/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰak/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /c͡çʰak/
  • (Maqu) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰak/
  • (Ngawa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰak/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰɐk/

Noun

ཁྲག • (khrag)

1. blood

Derived terms

• ཁྲག་རྩ (khrag rtsa, “vein”)