མཁན་པོ

Dzongkha

Noun

མཁན་པོ (mkhan po)

abbot

Tibetan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po), calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mkʰan.po/
Lhasa: /kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mkʰan.po/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kaen^f-bo^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Noun

མཁན་པོ • (mkhan po)

(Tibetan Buddhism) khenpo (degree for higher Buddhist studies given in Tibetan Buddhism)

Descendants

→ Chinese: 堪布 (kānbù)
- → Middle Mongol: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
  - Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
    - Buryat: хамба (xamba)
    - Mongolian: хамба (xamba)

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