སྤོས་དཀར
Tibetan
Etymology
སྤོས (spos, “incense”) + དཀར (dkar, “white”)
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*spos.tkar/
- Lhasa: /pøː˥˥.kaː(ɹ)˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*spos.tkar/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: boef-garf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /pøː˥˥.kaː(ɹ)˥˥/
Noun
སྤོས་དཀར • (spos dkar)
- sal resin, damar gum from Shorea robusta
- frankincense
References
- “སྤོས་དཀར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.