Where does “སློབ་ཕྲུག” come from?

སློབ་ཕྲུག (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སློབ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-lwap — to learn; to practice, to learn.

སློབ་ཕྲུག (Tibetan): student, pupil

Definitions

  1. student, pupil

Ancestry of “སློབ་ཕྲུག”, step by step

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

via Tibetan སློབ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསློབto study, to learn; to teach, to advise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-lwapto learn; to practice, to learn

via Tibetan ཕྲུག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanཕྲུགSee ཕྲུ་གུ; thick woollen cloth
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