ཀ

ཀ

1. ka, first letter of the Tibetan abugida

• IPA^(key): /kə/, [kʌ]

ཀ (ka)

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑ/, [kɑ˥]

ཀ (ka)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

ཀ (ka)

1. snow

Borrowed from Tibetan བཀའ (bka').

• IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

ཀ (ka)

1. order, command

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

ཀ (ka)

1. difficult

Borrowed from Tibetan ཀ (ka).

• IPA^(key): [kɐ́]

ཀ (ka)

1. The first letter of the Tibetan script: ka

• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32
• G. Hyslop; K. Lhendrup; K. Tshering; P. Chhophyel (2022), “ka”, in Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary, page 5

ཀ (ka)

1. The first letter in the Sikkimese alphabet.

• Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 17

ཀ • (ka)

1. The first letter of the Tibetan abugida.

• → Kurtöp: ཀ (ka)

་ཀ • (-ka)

1. prospective verbal suffix: about to

• Jeffrey Hopkins, Paul Hackett, editors (April 2016), Tibetan-Sanskrit-English dictionary‎^[2] (in Tibetan), Dyke (VA): UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies, →ISBN, page 1