བཀའ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”).

Noun

བཀའ (bka')

  1. speech, command, order

Derived terms

  • བཀའ་གྱ (bka' gya, “command, order”)
  • བཀའ་གྲོས (bka' gros, “talk; conference”)
  • བཀའ་འགྱུར (bka' 'gyur, “Kagyu”)
  • བཀའ་དྲིན (bka' drin, “kindness, benevolence”)
  • བཀའ་བློན (bka' blon, “cabinet minister”)
  • བཀའ་སློབ (bka' slob, “advice, instruction”)
  • བཀའ་གསལ (bka' gsal, “consent, approval”)

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 21

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to ཁ (kha, “mouth; word”) and སྐད (skad, “language; speech”) (Zhang, 2009), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth; opening”). See also Old Chinese 戶 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “door”).

Pronunciation

Noun

“language, speech”
Plain སྐད (skad)
Honorific བཀའ (bka')

བཀའ • (bka')

  1. precept, word, order, command
  2. instruction, teaching, advice
  3. Buddha's words, canonical scriptures
  4. abbreviation of བཀའ་བརྒྱུད (bka' brgyud, “Kagyu”)
  5. abbreviation of བཀའ་མ (bka' ma, “oral tradition”)

Declension

Declension of བཀའ (regular stem) 
absolutive བཀའ
bka'
genitive བཀའའི
bk'a'i
agentive བཀའས
bka'as
dative བཀའ་ལ
bka' la
locative བཀའ་ན
bka' na
terminative བཀའར
bka'ar
ablative བཀའ་ལས
bka' las
elative བཀའ་ནས
bka' nas
associative བཀའ་དང
bka' dang
comparative བཀའ་བས
bka' bas

Derived terms

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