ཁང

See also: ཁྱུང

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Burmese ခေါင် (hkaung, “ridge of the roof”) (Hill, 2019).

Etymology

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰaŋ/
• Lhasa: /khaŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: khang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /khaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཁང • (khang)

1. (in compounds) house, building (See ཁང་པ (khang pa, “house, building”).)

Derived terms

• ཁང་བདག (khang bdag, “landlord”)
• ཁང་མིག (khang mig, “room”)
• གྲྭ་ཁང (grwa khang)
• འགྲིམ་འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grim 'grul khang, “travel agency”)
• འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang, “inn, guest-house, hotel”)
• འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཁང ('grems ston khang, “museum”)
• དངུལ་ཁང (dngul khang, “bank”)
• ཆང་ཁང (chang khang, “pub”)
• མཆོད་ཁང (mchod khang)
• སྦྲག་ཁང (sbrag khang, “post office”)
• སྨན་ཁང (sman khang, “hospital”)
• སྨན་བཅོས་ཁང (sman bcos khang, “clinic”)
• སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang, “pharmacy”)
• བཙོན་ཁང (btson khang, “jail”)
• རྩྭ་ཁང (rtswa khang, “hut”)
• ཚོང་ཁང (tshong khang, “shop, store”)
• ལྷ་ཁང (lha khang, “temple”)