འཁོར

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-kwar (“round”); compare Chinese 歸 (OC *klul, “to return; to come back”). Resultative: སྐོར (skor).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ᵑkʰor/
Lhasa: /kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ᵑkʰor/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: kor^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /kʰoː(ɹ)˥˥/

Verb

འཁོར • ('khor) (nominal form འཁོར་བ)

(intransitive) to turn round, to rotate, to revolve, to spin, to go around, to elapse (of time)
(intransitive) to gather, to be formed, to be perfected

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཁོར (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཁོར	'khor
Future	འཁོར	'khor
Past	འཁོར	'khor
Imperative	འཁོར	'khor

Conjugation of འཁོར (Old Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཁོརད	'khord
Future	འཁོར	'khor
Past	འཁོརད	'khord
Imperative	འཁོརད	'khord

Noun

འཁོར • ('khor)

circle, sphere, disc, wheel, cycle
retinue, followers, entourage, attendants
surroundings, vicinity, nearby area
vehicle, means of transport

Derived terms

ཁ་ལོ་སྒྱུར་འཁོར (kha lo sgyur 'khor, “steering wheel”)
ཆོས་འཁོར (chos 'khor, “wheel of life”)
དཀྱིལ་འཁོར (dkyil 'khor, “mandala”)
དཀྲུག་འཁོར (dkrug 'khor, “lathe”)
མ་ནི་ཆོས་འཁོར (ma ni chos 'khor, “prayer wheel”)
མེ་འཁོར (me 'khor, “train”)
འཁྲུ་འཁོར ('khru 'khor, “washing machine”)
འཁོར་ལོ ('khor lo, “wheel, vehicle”)
འཁོར་ཤུར་ལྷམ་གོག ('khor shur lham gog, “rollerskates”)
འཕྲུལ་འཁོར ('phrul 'khor, “machine”)
འབངས་འཁོར ('bangs 'khor, “servant”)
རྐང་འཁོར (rkang 'khor, “bicycle”)
རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor, “propeller”)

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