མཁན་ནག

Tibetan

མཁན་ནག

Alternative forms

• འཁན་ནག ('khan nag)

Etymology

མཁན་པ (mkhan pa, “artemisia”) +‎ ནག (nag, “black”), due to the dark color of its stems and leaves.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.nak/
• Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.na(k̚)ˀˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.nak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-nag
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.na(k̚)ˀˑ/

Noun

མཁན་ནག • (mkhan nag)

1. Artemisia annua

Coordinate terms

• མཁན་སྐྱ (mkhan skya)
• མཁན་དཀར (mkhan dkar)
• མཁན་དམར (mkhan dmar)

References

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