ཁམས

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

ཁམས (khams)

  1. health, physical condition

Derived terms

  • ཁམས་གཤིས (khams gshis)
  • ཁམས་སང (khams sang)

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ཁམས • (khams)

  1. Kham (a historic region of the Tibet autonomous region)

Descendants

  • Chinese: 康 (kāng)

See also

Noun

ཁམས • (khams)

  1. constituent, element
    ཁམས་བརྒྱད ― khams brgyad ― eight substances
  2. constitution (as in health), physical state
  3. realm

References

  • “ཁམས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • “ཁམས” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
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