བཀའ

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and སྐད (skad, “language; speech”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”). See also Old Chinese 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “door”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pka(ɣ)/
• Lhasa: /ka˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pka(ɣ)/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ga^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥/

Noun

“language, speech”

Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

བཀའ • (bka')

1. precept, word, order, command
2. instruction, teaching, advice
3. Buddha's words, canonical scriptures
4. Abbreviation of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud, “Kagyu”).
5. Abbreviation of བཀའ་མ (bka' ma, “oral tradition”).

Declension

Declension of བཀའ (regular stem) 

absolutive	བཀའ bka'
genitive	བཀའའི bk'a'i
agentive	བཀའས bka'as
dative	བཀའ་ལ bka' la
locative	བཀའ་ན bka' na
terminative	བཀའར bka'ar
ablative	བཀའ་ལས bka' las
elative	བཀའ་ནས bka' nas
associative	བཀའ་དང bka' dang
comparative	བཀའ་བས bka' bas

Derived terms

• བཀའ་བསྒོ (bka' bsgo)
• བཀའ་ཤག (bka' shag)
• བཀའ་བློན (bka' blon)