མཁན་པོ

Dzongkha

Noun

མཁན་པོ (mkhan po)

1. abbot

Tibetan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po), calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.po/
• Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.po/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-bo^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Noun

མཁན་པོ • (mkhan po)

1. (Tibetan Buddhism) khenpo (degree for higher Buddhist studies given in Tibetan Buddhism)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 堪布 (kānbù)
  • → Middle Mongol: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
    • Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
      • Buryat: хамба (xamba)
      • Mongolian: хамба (xamba)