Where does “ཆོས་འབྱོར” come from?
ཆོས་འབྱོར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan འབྱོར, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan bjar ~ pjar — to affix, to plait, to sew, to braid.
Ancestry of “ཆོས་འབྱོར”, step by step
ཆོས་འབྱོར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan འབྱོར
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | འབྱོར | to stick, to adhere to, to take, to contract; to... |
| 2 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | bjar ~ pjar | to affix, to plait, to sew, to braid |
via Tibetan ཆོས
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཆོས | religion; scripture, classic; dharma |