སྐར་མ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-kar. Cognates include Apatani ta-kɯr, Kinnauri kar, Tshangla karma, Queyu skar⁵⁵ ma⁵⁵.

Noun

སྐར་མ (kārma)

star

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Sikkimese སྐར་མོ (skar mo). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skar.ma/
Lhasa: /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
Batang: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
Dêgê: /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
Gyaitang: /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
Zêkog: /rkar.ma/
Bla-Brang: /hkar.ma/
Arik: /rkar.mæ/
Maqu: /rkar.ma/
Mdung-Nag: /ʰkar.ma/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skar.ma/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gaa^f-ma^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kaː˥˥.ma˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥.ma˥˧/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /kə˥˥.wã˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hkar.ma/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rkar.mæ/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /rkar.ma/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʰkar.ma/

Noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

star
minute

Derived terms

སྐར་མའི་འོད (skar ma'i 'od, “starlight”)
སྐར་མའི་ཆགས་སྟངས (skar ma'i chags stangs, “constellation”)

Proper noun

སྐར་མ • (skar ma)

a unisex given name