ཀ

See also: ཀྵ, ག, and གི
ཀ U+0F40, ཀ
TIBETAN LETTER KA
← ༿
[U+0F3F] 		Tibetan ཁ →
[U+0F41]

Translingual

Letter

ཀ

  1. ka, first letter of the Tibetan abugida

Balti

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kə/, [kʌ]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

  1. The first letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Tibetan script

Dzongkha

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɑ/, [kɑ˥]

Letter

ཀ (ka)

  1. The first letter in the Dzongkha alphabet, named ka

Kurtöp
ཀ་

Etymology

Related to Tibetan གངས (gangs) and Dzongkha ཁཝ (khaw).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kə́/

Noun

ཀ (ka)

  1. snow

References
  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 5
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Letter

ཀ • (ka)

  1. The first letter of the Tibetan abugida.

Suffix

་ཀ • (-ka)

  1. prospective verbal suffix: about to

References
  • Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (2016 April), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary‎ (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1
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