རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ

Tibetan

Etymology

རང་སྐྱོང (rang skyong, “autonomy”) +‎ ཁུལ (khul, “prefecture”). Calque of Chinese 自治州 (zìzhìzhōu).

Pronunciation

  • Lhasa: /ʐaŋ˩˨.coŋˑ.kʰyː˥˥/

Noun

རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ • (rang skyong khul)

  1. (Chinese geography) autonomous prefecture
    བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ ― bod rigs rang skyong khul ― a Tibetan autonomous prefecture

Coordinate terms

References

  • “རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 728. →ISBN
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