འཁོར་ལོ

Tibetan

Etymology

A relationship with Chinese 軲轆轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) was proposed in Bauer (1994), and both were hypothesised to have been derived from a common Sino-Tibetan word, borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (wheel).

Pronunciation


Noun

འཁོར་ལོ • ('khor lo)

  1. wheel
  2. vehicle, car, chariot
  3. machine, device
  4. chakra, cycle

Derived terms