ཁུལ

Sikkimese

Etymology

Compare Tibetan ཁུལ (khul).

Noun

ཁུལ (khul)

(geography) area, region

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

Since Gong (1995), considered cognate to Chinese 郡 (jùn). See also Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kurl.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰul/
Lhasa: /kʰyː˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰul/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kue^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰyː˥˥/

Noun

ཁུལ • (khul)

(historical) district, domain, region
(Mainland China, geography) prefecture
area, region
Synonyms: ལུང་པ (lung pa), ས་ཆ (sa cha)
ellipsis of ཁུལ་བ (khul ba, “pretense”)
alternative form of ཁུ་ལུ (khu lu): fine wool

Derived terms

མཛེས་ལྗོངས་ཁུལ (mdzes ljongs khul)
གཞི་རྩེ་ཁུལ (gzhi rtse khul)
གཞོང་དབྱིབས་ས་ཁུལ (gzhong dbyibs sa khul)
རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ (rang skyong khul)
ས་ཁུལ (sa khul)
སྲུང་ཁུལ (srung khul)

References

“ཁུལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.