ཕག་པ

See also: ཕྲག་པ

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”) + པ (pa, “nominalizing suffix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཕག་པ (phag pa) (Devanagari spelling फग प)

  1. pig

References
  1. Graves, Thomas (2007) The phonetics and phonology of the Sherpa language
  • Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre &al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Noun

ཕག་པ • (phag pa)

  1. pig
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