Where does “མཁན་པ” come from?

མཁན་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan པ — a nominalization suffix.

མཁན་པ (Tibetan): a shrub used for incense, frankincense

Definitions

  1. a shrub used for incense, frankincense

Ancestry of “མཁན་པ”, step by step

མཁན་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix

via Tibetan མཁན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམཁན—
Every word from Tibetan པ →