བྲང་ཁ

Tibetan

Etymology

From བྲང (brang, “chest”) +‎ ཁ (kha, “chest”). Compare བྲང་ཁོག (brang khog) and སྙིང་ཁ (snying kha).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*braŋ.kʰa/
• Zêkog: /ptʂaŋ.kha/, / tʂaŋ.kʰæ/
• Bla-Brang: /tʂaŋ.kha/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*braŋ.kʰa/ (reconstructed)
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ptʂaŋ.kha/, / tʂaŋ.kʰæ/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /tʂaŋ.kha/

Noun

བྲང་ཁ • (brang kha)

1. (Amdo) chest; breast

References

• “བྲང་ཁ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan‎, Lacito Publications, p.759. →ISBN.