མཁན་དཀར

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• འཁན་དཀར ('khan dkar)

Etymology

མཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “Artemisia, Ajania”) +‎ དཀར་པོ (dkar po, “white”), due to its whitish leaves.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.tkar/
• Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.kaː(ɹ)ˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.tkar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-gar
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.kaː(ɹ)ˑ/

Noun

མཁན་དཀར • (mkhan dkar)

1. Ajania tenuifolia
2. Ajania khartensis

Coordinate terms

• མཁན་ནག (mkhan nag)
• མཁན་སྐྱ (mkhan skya)
• མཁན་དམར (mkhan dmar)

References

• “མཁན་དཀར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.