Etymograph

English

Kham

Kham comes from Tibetan ཁམས.

  1. Tibetanmodernཁམསkhams
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996Kham

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Tibetanmodernཁམསkhams
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996Kham

Earliest quotation: 1996, Whitney Stewart, The Chinese Takeover: “In the summer of 1956, Chinese troops bombed a…”

Every English word from Tibetan ཁམས

Today it means

name One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and Yunnan.

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Etymograph / Tibetan ཁམས / Kham

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