Where does “ཨ་རག་” come from?
ཨ་རག་ (Dzongkha) comes from Arabic عرق, from Arabic ر, from Arabic رَأَى — to see.
Ancestry of “ཨ་རག་”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Arabic | عرق | to strip of flesh, to nibble; to be emaciated; to... |
| 2 | Arabic | ر | second-person masculine singular active... |
| 3 | Arabic | رَأَى | to see |