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
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Ancestry of “སློབ་དེབ”, step by step
སློབ་དེབ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan དེབ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | དེབ | book; notebook, leaflet |
| 2 | Tibetan | དེབ་ཐེར | annals, records |
| 3 | Persian | دفتر | register, account book; notebook; office |
| 4 | Arabic | دفتر | register; roster; notebook; copybook; exercise... |
| 5 | Indonesian | daftar | list, register |
| 6 | Arabic | دَفْتَر | register; notebook |
| 7 | Aramaic | דפתרא | — |
| 8 | Classical Syriac | ܕܦܬܪܐ | parchment, hide; account book |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | διφθέρα | prepared hide, piece of leather; especially as... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | dipʰtʰérā | — |