ཁོལ

Sikkimese

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཁོལ (khol)

  1. servant

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ཁོལ (khol)

  1. to boil

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 28

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)(j)wal (slave; servant) (STEDT). Cognate with Burmese ကျွန် (kywan, slave), Proto-Loloish *C-kywan¹ (slave), Chinese (OC *ɡʷraːns), (OC *koːn, *kroːns).

Pronunciation


Noun

ཁོལ • (khol)

  1. slave, servant
  2. piece, fragment, bit
Derived terms
  • ཁོལ་རྒྱུད (khol rgyud)
  • ཁོལ་བུ (khol bu)
  • ཁོལ་བྲན (khol bran)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation


Verb

ཁོལ • (khol)

  1. alternative spelling of འཁོལ ('khol)
  2. past of འཁོལ ('khol)
  3. imperative of འགེལ ('gel)
  4. imperative of བཀོལ (bkol)

References

  • ཁོལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.