དུར་ཁྲོད

Tibetan

Etymology

དུར (dur) +‎ ཁྲོད (khrod)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*dur.kʰrot/
• Lhasa: /tʰuː(ɹ)˩˨.ʈ͡ʂøː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*dur.kʰrot/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tur^v-zhoe^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰuː(ɹ)˩˨.ʈ͡ʂøː˥˨/

Noun

དུར་ཁྲོད • (dur khrod)

1. charnel ground, sky burial site

   དུར་ཁྲོད་དུ་ཁྱེར་

   dur khrod du khyer

   to take a body to the burial site; fig. to take a secret to the grave

2. graveyard, cemetery, crematorium