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
- 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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | ཨ་རཔ | Arab, Arabic person |
| 2 | Arabic | عَرَب | Arabs; Arab |
| 3 | Arabic | عَرَبَ | to flow sharply |
via Dzongkha ཁ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dzongkha | ཁ | language; mouth; surface |