འཁྱག

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ.

Cognate with Chinese 冷 (lěng, “cold”), Lahu gawˬ (“cold, chilly”); also compare Chinese 晾 (liàng, “to dry”), Burmese ခြောက် (hkrauk, “dry”).

Doublet of གྲང (grang).

Pronunciation

Verb

འཁྱག • ('khyag) (nominal form འཁྱག་པ)

  1. to be cold, to get cold
  2. to freeze, to become frozen

Conjugation
Conjugation of འཁྱག
Tense/Mood Form Wylie
Present འཁྱག'khyag
Future འཁྱག'khyag
Past འཁྱགས'khyags

Derived terms
  • འཁྱག་རྒྱག ('khyag rgyag)
  • འཁྱག་སྒམ ('khyag sgam)
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