ཁྱིམ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim.

Noun

ཁྱིམ (khyim)

  1. house, home

Derived terms

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 29

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *kʰim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim.

Pronunciation

Noun

ཁྱིམ • (khyim)

  1. house, residence, home, household
  2. See ཁྱིམ་ཐབས (khyim thabs, “wife”).

Derived terms

  • ཁྱིམ་གྲོང (khyim grong)
  • ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད (khyim rgyud)
  • ཁྱིམ་ཐབ (khyim thab)
  • ཁྱིམ་གནས (khyim gnas)
  • ཁྱིམ་པ (khyim pa)
  • ཁྱིམ་གཙོ (khyim gtso)
  • ཁྱིམ་ཚང (khyim tshang)
  • ཁྱིམ་ཞག (khyim zhag)
  • ཁྱིམ་སོ (khyim so)
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