Where does “རྦ་རླབས” come from?

རྦ་རླབས (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རྦ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r/m-ba — wave; ripple.

རྦ་རླབས (Tibetan): wave

Definitions

  1. wave

Ancestry of “རྦ་རླབས”, step by step

རྦ་རླབས traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རྦ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྦwave
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanr/m-bawave; ripple

via Tibetan རླབས

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརླབསwave, billow
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan r/m-ba →Every word from Tibetan རྦ →