སྐྲ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-kra (“hair of head, head”) (STEDT).

Cognate with Jingpho kara.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*skra/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂa˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*skra/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zha^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂa˥˥/

Noun

སྐྲ • (skra)

hair (of the head)

Derived terms

སྐྲ་དཀར (skra dkar)
སྐྲ་རྐང (skra rkang)
སྐྲ་སྐྱེས (skra skyes)
སྐྲ་ཁ (skra kha)

References

“སྐྲ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.

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