Where does “ཨ་རབ་ཁ” come from?

ཨ་རབ་ཁ (Dzongkha) comes from Dzongkha ཨ་རཔ, from Arabic عَرَب, from Arabic عَرَبَ — to flow sharply.

ཨ་རབ་ཁ (Dzongkha): the Arabic language

Definitions

  1. the Arabic language

Ancestry of “ཨ་རབ་ཁ”, step by step

ཨ་རབ་ཁ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dzongkha ཨ་རཔ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཨ་རཔArab, Arabic person
2ArabicعَرَبArabs; Arab
3Arabicعَرَبَto flow sharply

via Dzongkha

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhalanguage; mouth; surface
Every word from Arabic عَرَبَEvery word from Arabic عَرَبEvery word from Dzongkha ཨ་རཔ