འགོག

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འགོག ('gog)

1. To crawl (on one's hands and knees)

• 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 40

Causative of འགག ('gag).

འགོག • ('gog) (nominal form འགོག་པ)

1. (transitive) to halt, to block, to hinder
2. (transitive) to resist, to oppose

• སྐྱེ་ནུས་འགོག་རྫས (skye nus 'gog rdzas, “antibiotic”)
• ཉི་བཀྲག་འགོག (nyi bkrag 'gog, “sunscreen”)
• གཅུས་འགོག (gcus 'gog, “valve”)

Cognate to Chinese 攫 (jué, “to grab”) (Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kʷak.

འགོག • ('gog) (nominal form འགོག་པ)

1. (transitive) to take away forcibly, to snatch away, to pull out