འཁོར
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar (“round”); compare Chinese 歸 (OC *klul, “to return; to come back”). Resultative: སྐོར (skor).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ᵑkʰor/
- Lhasa: /kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ᵑkʰor/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: korf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥/
Verb
འཁོར • ('khor) (nominal form འཁོར་བ)
- (intransitive) to turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to go around, to elapse (of time)
- (intransitive) to gather, to be formed, to be perfected
Conjugation
| present | འཁོར ('khor) |
|---|---|
| future | འཁོར ('khor) |
| past | འཁོར ('khor) |
| imperative | འཁོར ('khor) |
| present | འཁོརད ('khord) |
|---|---|
| future | འཁོར ('khor) |
| past | འཁོརད ('khord) |
| imperative | འཁོརད ('khord) |
Noun
འཁོར • ('khor)
- circle, sphere, disc, wheel, cycle
- retinue, followers, entourage, attendants
- surroundings, vicinity, nearby area
- vehicle, means of transport
Derived terms
- དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (dkyil 'khor, “mandala”)
- དཀྲུག་འཁོར (dkrug 'khor, “lathe”)
- རྐང་འཁོར (rkang 'khor, “bicycle”)
- ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་འཁོར (kha lo sgyur 'khor, “steering wheel”)
- འཁོར་ལོ ('khor lo, “wheel, vehicle”)
- འཁོར་ཤུར་ལྷམ་གོག ('khor shur lham gog, “rollerskates”)
- འཁྲུ་འཁོར ('khru 'khor, “washing machine”)
- ཆོས་འཁོར (chos 'khor, “wheel of life”)
- དུས་འཁོར (dus 'khor, “Kalachakra; wheel of time”)
- འཕྲུལ་འཁོར ('phrul 'khor, “machine”)
- འབངས་འཁོར ('bangs 'khor, “servant”)
- མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར (ma ni chos 'khor, “prayer wheel”)
- མེ་འཁོར (me 'khor, “train”)
- རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor, “propeller”)
References
- “འཁོར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.