ཐ་མག
Tibetan
Etymology
From Middle Mongol ᠲᠠᠮᠠᠬᠢ (tamaqi, “tobacco”), from Persian تنباکو (tanbâku), from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq), perhaps via an Indo-Aryan intermediary. Compare Old Marathi तमाखु (tamākhu), Gujarati તમાકુ (tamāku), Hindustani تَنبَاکُو / तंबाकू (tambākū), Kannada ತಂಬಾಕು (tambāku), Sindhi تَماڪُ / तमाकु, Punjabi ਤਮਾਕੂ (tamākū) / تَمباکُو (tambākū), Maithili तमाकुल (tamākul) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒳𑒪 (tamākula), तमाकू (tamākū) / 𑒞𑒧𑒰𑒏𑒴 (tamākū), Oriya ତମାଖୁ (tômakhu), Bengali তামাক (tamak).
Derived terms
- ཐ་མག་བརྡབ་ས (tha mag brdab sa, “ashtray”)
See also
- ཤོག་དྲིལ་དུ་བ (shog dril du ba)
- བཞེས་ཐག (bzhes thag)
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