Where does “འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ” come from?
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ (Dzongkha) comes from Dzongkha འབྲུག, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-bru(ŋ/k) — dragon; thunder.
Ancestry of “འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ”, step by step
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Dzongkha འབྲུག
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | འབྲུག | dragon |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | m-bru(ŋ/k) | dragon; thunder |
via Tibetan རྒྱལ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | རྒྱལ | to be victorious, to win, to conquer, to subdue,... |
via Tibetan ཁབ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཁབ | needle |