Where does “ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ” come from?

ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ནག་པོ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nək — black.

ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ (Tibetan): Anisodus tanguticus, used in traditional medicine

Definitions

  1. Anisodus tanguticus, used in traditional medicine

Ancestry of “ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ”, step by step

ཐང་ཕྲོམ་ནག་པོ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ནག་པོ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanནག་པོblack; dark, gloomy; evil, unwholesome, tarnished
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan*nəkblack

via Tibetan ཐང་ཕྲོམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཐང་ཕྲོམvarieties of nightshades such as the thornapple (Datura spp.) and Anisodus tanguticus, used in traditional medicine
2Tibetanཐངplain, plains, flatland
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