Where does “སྨན་ཁབ” come from?

སྨན་ཁབ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྨན, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-maŋ.

སྨན་ཁབ (Tibetan): hypodermic needle

Definitions

  1. hypodermic needle

Ancestry of “སྨན་ཁབ”, step by step

སྨན་ཁབ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྨན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྨནdrug, medicine, medication; herb, remedy;...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-maŋ—

via Tibetan ཁབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཁབneedle
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-maŋ →Every word from Tibetan སྨན →