སྐྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-kra (“hair of head, head”) (STEDT).

Cognate with Jingpho kara.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*skra/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂa˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*skra/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zha^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa˥˥/

Noun

སྐྲ • (skra)

1. hair (of the head)

Derived terms

• སྐྲ་དཀར (skra dkar)
• སྐྲ་རྐང (skra rkang)
• སྐྲ་སྐྱེས (skra skyes)
• སྐྲ་ཁ (skra kha)

 

References

• “སྐྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.