བཀའ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Noun

བཀའ (bka')

speech, command, order

Derived terms

བཀའ་གྱ (bka' gya, “command, order”)
བཀའ་གྲོས (bka' gros, “talk; conference”)
བཀའ་འགྱུར (bka' 'gyur, “Kagyu”)
བཀའ་དྲིན (bka' drin, “kindness, benevolence”)
བཀའ་བློན (bka' blon, “cabinet minister”)
བཀའ་སློབ (bka' slob, “advice, instruction”)
བཀའ་གསལ (bka' gsal, “consent, approval”)

References

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 21

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and སྐད (skad, “language; speech”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”). See also Old Chinese 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “door”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*pka(ɣ)/
Lhasa: /ka˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*pka(ɣ)/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ga^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ka˥˥/

Noun

“language, speech”
Plain	སྐད (skad)
Honorific	བཀའ (bka')

བཀའ • (bka')

precept, word, order, command
instruction, teaching, advice
Buddha's words, canonical scriptures
abbreviation of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud, “Kagyu”)
abbreviation of བཀའ་མ (bka' ma, “oral tradition”)