རྔ་མོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rŋa-mwaŋ. Cognate with Tibetan རྔ་མོང (rnga mong), རྔ་བོང (rnga bong), རྔ་མོ (rnga mo).

Noun

རྔ་མོ (rnga mo)

  1. camel

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 47