བྲང་ཁོག

Tibetan

Etymology

From བྲང (brang, “chest”) +‎ ཁོག (khog). Compare Dzongkha བྱང་འགོ (byang 'go), Sherpa ཚེ་ཁོག / छेकोक (tshekok), as well as Amdo Tibetan བྲང་ཁ (brang kha).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*braŋ.kʰok/
Lhasa: /pʰaŋ˩˨.kʰo˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*braŋ.kʰok/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: pang^v-ko^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /pʰaŋ˩˨.kʰo˥˨/

Noun

བྲང་ཁོག • (brang khog)

(Standard Tibetan, Central) chest; breast

References

“བྲང་ཁོག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Tournadre, Nicolas; Suzuki, Hiroyuki (2023) The Tibetic Languages: An Introduction to the Family of Languages Derived from Old Tibetan, Lacito Publications, p.759. →ISBN.