ཁང

See also: ཁྱུང and ཁངས

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

ཁང (khang)

(architecture) hall
(in compounds) house, place, location, compound, structure

Derived terms

ཁང་མིག (khang mig, “room”)
གཅན་གཟན་ཁང (gcan gzan khang, “zoo”)
ཆང་ཁང (chang khang, “pub”)
ཇ་ཁང (ja khang, “teahouse”)
ཏར་ཁང (tar khang, “telegraph office”)

References

Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 27

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Burmese ခေါင် (hkaung, “ridge of the roof”) (Hill, 2019).

Etymology

Old Tibetan: /*kʰaŋ/
Lhasa: /khaŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: khang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /khaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཁང • (khang)

(in compounds) house, building (See ཁང་པ (khang pa, “house, building”).)

Derived terms

ཁང་བདག (khang bdag, “landlord”)
ཁང་མིག (khang mig, “room”)
གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
འགྲིམ་འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grim 'grul khang, “travel agency”)
འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang, “inn, guest-house, hotel”)
འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང ('grems ston khang, “museum”)
དངུལ་ཁང (dngul khang, “bank”)
ཆང་ཁང (chang khang, “pub”)
མཆོད་ཁང (mchod khang)
སྦྲག་ཁང (sbrag khang, “post office”)
སྨན་ཁང (sman khang, “hospital”)
སྨན་བཅོས་ཁང (sman bcos khang, “clinic”)
སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang, “pharmacy”)
བཙོན་ཁང (btson khang, “jail”)
རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
ཚོང་ཁང (tshong khang, “shop, store”)
ལྷ་ཁང (lha khang, “temple”)