མཁར

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

མཁར (mkhar)

  1. castle, fort

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

Cognate with Chinese 家 (“house”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Noun

མཁར • (mkhar)

  1. castle
  2. house
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