འཁོར་ལོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

འཁོར་ལོ ('khor lo)

  1. wheel
  2. vehicle

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 28

Tibetan

Etymology

A relationship with Chinese 軲轆／轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) was proposed in Bauer (1994), and both were hypothesised to have been derived from a common Sino-Tibetan word, borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

འཁོར་ལོ • ('khor lo)

  1. wheel
  2. vehicle, car, chariot
  3. machine, device
  4. chakra, cycle

Derived terms

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