ཁང

See also: ཁྱུང and ཁངས

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Burmese ခေါင် (hkaung, “ridge of the roof”) (Hill, 2019).

Etymology

Old Tibetan: /*kʰaŋ/
Lhasa: /khaŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: khang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /khaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཁང • (khang)

(in compounds) house, building (See ཁང་པ (khang pa, “house, building”).)

Derived terms

ཁང་བདག (khang bdag, “landlord”)
ཁང་མིག (khang mig, “room”)
གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
འགྲིམ་འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grim 'grul khang, “travel agency”)
འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang, “inn, guest-house, hotel”)
འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང ('grems ston khang, “museum”)
དངུལ་ཁང (dngul khang, “bank”)
ཆང་ཁང (chang khang, “pub”)
མཆོད་ཁང (mchod khang)
སྦྲག་ཁང (sbrag khang, “post office”)
སྨན་ཁང (sman khang, “hospital”)
སྨན་བཅོས་ཁང (sman bcos khang, “clinic”)
སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang, “pharmacy”)
བཙོན་ཁང (btson khang, “jail”)
རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
ཚོང་ཁང (tshong khang, “shop, store”)
ལྷ་ཁང (lha khang, “temple”)