ཁབ

Kurtöp

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *kʰap, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-qəp. Cognates include Dzongkha ཁབ (khab) and Tibetan ཁབ (khab).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kʰɐ́p]

Noun

ཁབ (khap)

needle
hook

References

G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 19

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *kʰap, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-qəp (“needle”); compare Chinese 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums), Burmese အပ် (ap).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰap/
Lhasa: /kʰəp̚˥˨/
Batang: /kʰɑuʔ˥˧/
Dêgê: /kʰɑʔ˥˧/
Gyaitang: /kʰo˥˧/
Zêkog: /kʰap/
Bla-Brang: /kʰap/
Arik: /kʰap/
Mdung-Nag: /kʰap/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰap/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kacb^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰəp̚˥˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /kʰɑuʔ˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /kʰɑʔ˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /kʰo˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /kʰap/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /kʰap/

Noun

ཁབ • (khab)

needle

Derived terms

ཁབ་གཟེར (khab gzer, “pin”)
སྨན་ཁབ (sman khab, “hypodermic needle”)