Where does “དེབ་ཆུང” come from?

དེབ་ཆུང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan དེབ, from Tibetan དེབ་ཐེར, from Persian دفتر, from Arabic دفتر, from Indonesian daftar, from Arabic دَفْتَر, from Aramaic דפתרא, from Classical Syriac ܕܦܬܪܐ.

དེབ་ཆུང (Tibetan): brochure, pamphlet

Definitions

  1. brochure, pamphlet

Ancestry of “དེབ་ཆུང”, step by step

དེབ་ཆུང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan དེབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདེབbook; notebook, leaflet
2Tibetanདེབ་ཐེརannals, records
3Persianدفترregister, account book; notebook; office
4Arabicدفترregister; roster; notebook; copybook; exercise...
5Indonesiandaftarlist, register
6Arabicدَفْتَرregister; notebook
7Aramaicדפתרא
8Classical Syriacܕܦܬܪܐparchment, hide; account book
9Ancient Greekδιφθέραprepared hide, piece of leather; especially as...
10Proto-Hellenicdipʰtʰérā

via Tibetan ཆུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཆུངsmall
Every word from Proto-Hellenic dipʰtʰérāEvery word from Ancient Greek διφθέραEvery word from Classical Syriac ܕܦܬܪܐ