"ཁ་བ" meaning in Tibetan

See ཁ་བ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: kha ba [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ. Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-pro|*kaʔ}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ Head templates: {{head|bo|adjective}} ཁ་བ • (kha ba)
  1. bitter
    Sense id: en-ཁ་བ-bo-adj-u-jpUx4B Categories (other): Taste Disambiguation of Taste: 92 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Categories (other): Winter Disambiguation of Winter: 0 0

Noun

Forms: kha ba [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba. Etymology templates: {{inh|bo|sit-bdi-pro|*kʰa ba}} Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba Head templates: {{head|bo|noun}} ཁ་བ • (kha ba)
  1. snow Synonyms: གངས (english: gangs), ཁངས (khangs) Derived forms: ཁ་འདབ (kha 'dab)
    Sense id: en-ཁ་བ-bo-noun-p0YiLwnY Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Tibetan entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100 Disambiguation of Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Categories (other): Winter Disambiguation of Winter: 0 0
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  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "bo",
      "name": "Winter",
      "orig": "bo:Winter",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*kaʔ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kha ba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁ་བ • (kha ba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "bo",
          "name": "Taste",
          "orig": "bo:Taste",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bitter"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཁ་བ-bo-adj-u-jpUx4B",
      "links": [
        [
          "bitter",
          "bitter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁ་བ"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "bo",
      "name": "Winter",
      "orig": "bo:Winter",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-bdi-pro",
        "3": "*kʰa ba"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kha ba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁ་བ • (kha ba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "kha 'dab",
          "word": "ཁ་འདབ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "snow"
      ],
      "id": "en-ཁ་བ-bo-noun-p0YiLwnY",
      "links": [
        [
          "snow",
          "snow"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "gangs",
          "word": "གངས"
        },
        {
          "roman": "khangs",
          "word": "ཁངས"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁ་བ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Tibetan adjectives",
    "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Tibetan lemmas",
    "Tibetan nouns",
    "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Bodish",
    "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Bodish",
    "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "bo:Taste",
    "bo:Winter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*kaʔ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kha ba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁ་བ • (kha ba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "bitter"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bitter",
          "bitter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁ་བ"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Tibetan lemmas",
    "Tibetan nouns",
    "Tibetan terms derived from Proto-Bodish",
    "Tibetan terms inherited from Proto-Bodish",
    "bo:Taste",
    "bo:Winter"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kha 'dab",
      "word": "ཁ་འདབ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "sit-bdi-pro",
        "3": "*kʰa ba"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Bodish *kʰa ba.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kha ba",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "ཁ་བ • (kha ba)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "bo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "snow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snow",
          "snow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "gangs",
      "word": "གངས"
    },
    {
      "roman": "khangs",
      "word": "ཁངས"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ཁ་བ"
}

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