མཁའ

Sikkimese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka-n (“heavens, sky, sun”).

Noun

མཁའ (mkha')

sky
(religion) heaven

Derived terms

མཁའ་སྤྱོད (mkha' spyod)

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 31

Tibetan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka-n (“heavens, sky, sun”) (STEDT). Compare Chinese 乾 (OC *kaːn, *ɡran) and Namuyi nɛ⁵⁵ ŋkhɛ³³ mu³³ (“sky”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mkʰa(ɣ)/
Lhasa: /kʰa˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mkʰa(ɣ)/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ka^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰa˥˥/

Noun

མཁའ • (mkha')

space
Synonym: མཁའ་དབྱིངས (mkha' dbyings)
sky
Synonym: ནམ་མཁའ (nam mkha')
heaven, celestial realm
Synonym: ནམ་མཁའ (nam mkha')
vacuity, openness
(traditional medicine) space, ether, air
Synonym: ནམ་མཁའ (nam mkha')

Derived terms

མཁའ་འགྲོ (mkha' 'gro)
མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ (mkha' 'gro ma)
མཁའ་དབྱིངས (mkha' dbyings)
ནམ་མཁའ (nam mkha')

References

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