Where does “འབྲུ་མར” come from?

འབྲུ་མར (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan མར, from Tibetan མ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan ma — no, not, negative, not have, none.

འབྲུ་མར (Tibetan): grain oil, vegetable oil from oilseeds such as mustard and rapeseed

Definitions

  1. grain oil, vegetable oil from oilseeds such as mustard and rapeseed

Ancestry of “འབྲུ་མར”, step by step

འབྲུ་མར traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan མར

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམརbutter; oil; below, downward
2Tibetanmother; goddess; negates the following verb in...
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmano, not, negative, not have, none

via Tibetan འབྲུ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanའབྲུbarley
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan maEvery word from Tibetan Every word from Tibetan མར
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