ཆོ

Kurtöp

Etymology

Related to Tibetan ཆོས (chos) and Dzongkha ཆོས (chos). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • (colloquial) IPA(key): [c͡ɕʰó]
  • (educated) IPA(key): [c͡ɕʰói̯], [c͡ɕʰǿː]

Noun

ཆོ (chö)

  1. religion
  2. (Buddhism) dharma

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 51
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 41