སྒལ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kal ⪤ *s-gal (“back (lower); kidney; load; carry”) (STEDT).

Cognate with Mizo kal (“kidney”), Chepang गल्‌ (gəl, “kidney”), Tangut 𗹼 (*khiwa¹, “kidney”), Burmese ခါး (hka:, “waist”), Chinese 荷 (*ɡaːlʔ, “to carry, to bear”), Chinese 可 (*kʰaːlʔ, “to be able to”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zɡal.pa/
Lhasa: /kɛː˩˨.paˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zɡal.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: gae^v-ba
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kɛː˩˨.paˑ/

Noun

སྒལ་པ • (sgal pa)

back (rear of the body)

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