ཡག་པོ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l(j)a(k/ŋ) (“good, beautiful”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*jak.po/
Lhasa: /ja(k̚)ˀ˩˨ po˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*jak.po/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: yag^v bo^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ja(k̚)ˀ˩˨ po˥˥/

Adjective

ཡག་པོ • (yag po)

good, nice
ཁང་མིག་འདི་བཀོད་པ་ཡག་པོ་འདུག
khang mig 'di bkod pa yag po 'dug
This room has a nice design.

References

“ཡག་པོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.