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Where does “ཐལ་བ” come from?

ཐལ་བ (Tibetan) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan tal — charcoal; dust; ashes.

ཐལ་བ (Tibetan): dust, dirt, ashes; powder, particles

Definitions

  1. dust, dirt, ashes; powder, particles

Ancestry of “ཐལ་བ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetantalcharcoal; dust; ashes
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