ཐ་མག

Tibetan

Etymology

From Middle Mongol ᠲᠠᠮᠠᠬᠢ (tamaki, “tobacco”), from Persian تنباکو (tanbâku), from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq), perhaps via an Indo-Aryan intermediary. Compare Old Marathi तमाखु (tamākhu), Gujarati તમાકુ (tamāku), Hindustani تَنبَاکُو (tanbākū) / तंबाकू (tambākū), Kannada ತಂಬಾಕು (tambāku), Sindhi تَماڪُ / तमाकु, Punjabi ਤਮਾਕੂ (tamākū) / تَمباکُو (tambākū), Maithili तमाकुल (tamākul) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒳𑒪 (tamākula), तमाकू (tamākū) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒴 (tamākū), Odia ତମାଖୁ (tamākhu), Bengali তামাক (tamak).

Noun

ཐ་མག • (tha mag)

1. cigarette

Derived terms

• ཐ་མག་བརྡབ་ས (tha mag brdab sa, “ashtray”)

See also

• ཤོག་དྲིལ་དུ་བ (shog dril du ba)
• བཞེས་ཐག (bzhes thag)