ཁ་ལག

Tibetan

Etymology

ཁ (kha, “mouth”) +‎ ལག (lag, “arm, hand”)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰa.lak/
Lhasa: /kha˥˥.la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰa.lak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kha^f-lag^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kha˥˥.la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

ཁ་ལག • (kha lag)

“mouth”
Plain	ཁ (kha)
Honorific	ཞལ (zhal)

(Classical) hand and mouth; face and arms
(Lhasa, Central) food
Synonyms: ལྟོ (lto), (honorific) ཞལ་ལག (zhal lag)

References

“ཁ་ལག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 173. →ISBN
Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan, Lacito Publications, page 732. →ISBN.