ཁྲག

Tibetan

“blood”
Plain	ཁྲག (khrag)
Honorific	སྐུ་མཚལ (sku mtshal)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”). Cognate with Chinese 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ, “red”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰrak/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˩/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰrak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: cha^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa˥˩/

Noun

ཁྲག • (khrag)

blood

Derived terms

ཁྲག་རྩ (khrag rtsa, “vein”)

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