སྐར་མ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-kar. Cognates include Apatani ta-kɯr, Kinnauri kar, Tshangla karma, Queyu skar⁵⁵ ma⁵⁵.

Noun

སྐར་མ (kārma)

star

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skar.ma/
Lhasa: /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
Batang: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
Dêgê: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
Gyaitang: /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
Zêkog: /rkar.ma/
Bla-Brang: /hkar.ma/
Arik: /rkar.mæ/
Maqu: /rkar.ma/
Mdung-Nag: /ʰkar.ma/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skar.ma/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gaa^f-ma^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hkar.ma/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rkar.mæ/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʰkar.ma/

Noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

star
minute

Derived terms

སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od, “starlight”)
སྐར་མའི་ཆགས་སྟངས (skar ma'i chags stangs, “constellation”)

Proper noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

a unisex given name