Where does “སློབ་དེབ” come from?

སློབ་དེབ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan དེབ, from Tibetan དེབ་ཐེར, from Persian دفتر, from Arabic دفتر, from Indonesian daftar, from Arabic دَفْتَر, from Aramaic דפתרא, from Classical Syriac ܕܦܬܪܐ.

སློབ་དེབ (Tibetan): textbook

Definitions

  1. textbook

Ancestry of “སློབ་དེབ”, step by step

སློབ་དེབ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan དེབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanདེབbook; notebook, leaflet
2Tibetanདེབ་ཐེརannals, records
3Persianدفترregister, account book; notebook; office
4Arabicدفترregister; roster; notebook; copybook; exercise...
5Indonesiandaftarlist, register
6Arabicدَفْتَرregister; notebook
7Aramaicדפתרא—
8Classical Syriacܕܦܬܪܐparchment, hide; account book
9Ancient Greekδιφθέραprepared hide, piece of leather; especially as...
10Proto-Hellenicdipʰtʰérā—

via Tibetan སློབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསློབto study, to learn; to teach, to advise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-lwapto learn; to practice, to learn
Every word from Proto-Hellenic dipʰtʰérā →Every word from Ancient Greek διφθέρα →Every word from Classical Syriac ܕܦܬܪܐ →