སྒལ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kal ⪤ *s-gal (“back (lower); kidney; load; carry”) (STEDT).

Cognate with Mizo kal (“kidney”), Chepang गल् (gəl, “kidney”), Tangut 𗹼 (*khiwa¹, “kidney”), Burmese ခါး (hka:, “waist”), Chinese 荷 (*ɡaːlʔ, “to carry, to bear”), Chinese 可 (*kʰaːlʔ, “to be able to”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zɡal.pa/
• Lhasa: /kɛː˩˨.paˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zɡal.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gae^v-ba
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kɛː˩˨.paˑ/

Noun

སྒལ་པ • (sgal pa)

1. back (rear of the body)