Where does “དེབ་ཐེར” come from?
དེབ་ཐེར (Tibetan) comes from Persian دفتر, from Arabic دفتر, from Indonesian daftar, from Arabic دَفْتَر, from Aramaic דפתרא, from Classical Syriac ܕܦܬܪܐ, from Ancient Greek διφθέρα, from Proto-Hellenic dipʰtʰérā.
དེབ་ཐེར (Tibetan): annals, records
Ancestry of “དེབ་ཐེར”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Persian | دفتر | register, account book; notebook; office |
| 2 | Arabic | دفتر | register; roster; notebook; copybook; exercise... |
| 3 | Indonesian | daftar | list, register |
| 4 | Arabic | دَفْتَر | register; notebook |
| 5 | Aramaic | דפתרא | — |
| 6 | Classical Syriac | ܕܦܬܪܐ | parchment, hide; account book |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | διφθέρα | prepared hide, piece of leather; especially as... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | dipʰtʰérā | — |
Words derived from “དེབ་ཐེར”