ཁྲག

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak.

Noun

ཁྲག (khrag)

blood

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak.

Noun

ཁྲག (thrak)

blood

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

“blood”
Plain	ཁྲག (khrag)
Honorific	སྐུ་ཁྲག (sku khrag)
High Honorific	སྐུ་མཚལ (sku mtshal)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qrak (“blood; red”). Cognate with Chinese 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ, “red”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰrak/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˨/
Batang: /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
Dêgê: /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
Zêkog: /c͡çʰak/
Bla-Brang: /t͡ɕʰak/
Arik: /c͡çʰak/
Maqu: /t͡ɕʰak/
Ngawa: /ʈ͡ʂʰak/
Mdung-Nag: /t͡ɕʰɐk/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰrak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: cha^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʔ˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /c͡çʰak/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰak/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /c͡çʰak/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰak/
- (Ngawa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰak/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰɐk/

Noun

ཁྲག • (khrag)

blood

Derived terms

ཁྲག་རྩ (khrag rtsa, “vein”)