མཁོ

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མཁོ (mkho)

1. To be necessary, to be necessitated, to be needed.
2. To be desired, to be wanted.

• 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

Related to འཁོ ('kho, “to wish, to want”) and possibly དགོས (dgos, “to be necessary; must”). Compared with Chinese 好 (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good”) (Starostin).

མཁོ • (mkho) (nominal form མཁོ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to be necessary, to be desirable, to be wished for

   ཉེ་བར་མཁོ་བ

   nye bar mkho ba

   indispensable, most necessary

   རྒྱ་གར་ལ་མཁོ་བའི་སྒྲའི་བཀླག་ཐབས

   rgya gar la mkho ba 'i sgra'i bklag thabs

   pronunciation manual for speech sounds required in [the] India[n language, i.e. Sanskrit]

   དབྱར་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་སྦྲང་ཆར་༎ དགུན་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་ཉི་མ་༎

   dbyar dus mkho ba 'I sbrang char.

dgun dus mkho ba 'I nyi ma.