ཁོལ་པོ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཁོལ (khol, “servant”) +‎ པོ (po). Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)(j)wal (“slave; servant”) (STEDT). Cognate with Burmese ကျွန် (kywan, “slave”), Proto-Loloish *C-kywan¹ (“slave”), Chinese 宦 (OC *ɡʷraːns), 倌 (OC *koːn, *kroːns).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kʰol.po/
Lhasa: /kʰøː˥˥.poˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kʰol.po/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: koe^f-bo
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰøː˥˥.poˑ/

Noun

ཁོལ་པོ • (khol po)

male servant, slave; servant boy
ཚེ་འདི འི་ཁོལ་པོ ― tshe 'di'i khol po ― a slave to this life

Related terms

ཁོལ་མོ (khol mo)

References

“ཁོལ་པོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.

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