མག་པ

From Proto-Bodish *mak pa (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *maːk (“son-in-law”). Cognates include Dzongkha རྨགཔ (rmagp) and Tibetan མག་པ (mag pa).

• IPA^(key): [mɐ̀k.pɐ]

མག་པ (makpa)

1. husband

• ཕོབ་ས (phopsa)

• ནཱེ́་སང ('nêsang, “wife”)

• G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 148
• Kuenga Lhendup (2025), A Phonetic and Phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kurtöp‎^[1], University of Syndey (PhD thesis), page 130

From Proto-Bodish *mak pa, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *maːk (“son-in-law, genitals”). Compare Dzongkha རྨགཔ (rmagp, “husband”), and Galo magbo, Adi mak-bo, Mizo mâkpa; also compare Jingpho /da-maʔ/, Lepcha ᰕᰤᰩᰭ (myók), Southern Qiang /tʃɿ⁵⁵ ma³¹/ (Taoping), Northern Qiang /tʃɪ miɛ/ (Mawo), Situ /tə nmak/ (Ma'erkang / Barkam), Burmese သမက် (sa.mak), Lisu ꓟꓯꓸ ꓪꓵ (mǽ wy), S'gaw Karen မာ် (mạ). Benedict (1979) also compares this to 牡 (OC *mɯwʔ, “male”), though this is disputed. (STEDT)

མག་པ • (mag pa)

1. groom (generally matrilocal, living with the wife's family)

   Antonym: མནའ་མ (mna' ma)

2. son-in-law (generally matrilocal)

• “མག་པ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 9. University of California Press.
• James A. Matisoff, editor (2015), The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus, etymon 547.