Where does “ཨ་ག་རུ” come from?

ཨ་ག་རུ (Tibetan) comes from Sanskrit अगरु, from Tamil அகில், from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀓𑀺𑀮𑁰 — agar, agarwood.

ཨ་ག་རུ (Tibetan): agarwood, aloewood, Aquilaria malaccensis

Definitions

  1. agarwood, aloewood, Aquilaria malaccensis

Ancestry of “ཨ་ག་རུ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Sanskritअगरुagarwood
2Tamilஅகில்agarwood, eaglewood
3Old Tamil𑀅𑀓𑀺𑀮𑁰agar, agarwood
Every word from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀓𑀺𑀮𑁰 →Every word from Tamil அகில் →Every word from Sanskrit अगरु →