བཀའ

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”).

Pronunciation

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

བཀའ • (bka')

  1. precept, word, order, command
  2. instruction, teaching, advice
  3. Buddha's words, canonical scriptures
  4. Abbreviation of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud, “Kagyu”).
  5. Abbreviation of བཀའ་མ (bka' ma, “oral tradition”).

Declension
Declension of བཀའ (regular stem) 
absolutive བཀའ
bka'
genitive བཀའའི
bk'a'i
agentive བཀའས
bka'as
dative བཀའ་ལ
bka' la
locative བཀའ་ན
bka' na
terminative བཀའར
bka'ar
ablative བཀའ་ལས
bka' las
elative བཀའ་ནས
bka' nas
associative བཀའ་དང
bka' dang
comparative བཀའ་བས
bka' bas

Derived terms
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