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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetana nominalization suffix

via Tibetan མཁན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམཁན
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