གུར་གུམ
Tibetan
Alternative forms
- གུར་ཀུམ (gur kum)
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian کرکم (korkom, “saffron”), presumably from Arabic كُرْكُم (kurkum, “turmeric”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ɡur.ɡum/
- Lhasa: /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ɡur.ɡum/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kuv-gumf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰu˩˨.kum˥˥/
Noun
གུར་གུམ • (gur gum)