མཁོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Related to འཁོ ('kho, “to wish, to want”) and possibly དགོས (dgos, “to be necessary; must”). Compared with Chinese 好 (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good”) (Starostin).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mkʰo/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mkʰo/ (reconstructed)

Verb

མཁོ • (mkho) (nominal form མཁོ་བ)

(intransitive) to be necessary, to be desirable, to be wished for
ཉེ་བར་མཁོ་བ
nye bar mkho ba
indispensable, most necessary

རྒྱ་གར་ལ་མཁོ་བའི་སྒྲའི་བཀླག་ཐབས
rgya gar la mkho ba 'i sgra'i bklag thabs
pronunciation manual for speech sounds required in [the] India[n language, i.e. Sanskrit]

དབྱར་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་སྦྲང་ཆར་༎ དགུན་དུས་མཁོ་བའི་ཉི་མ་༎
dbyar dus mkho ba 'I sbrang char.

dgun dus mkho ba 'I nyi ma.

Rain is needed in summer; Sun is needed in winter. (proverb)

Conjugation

Conjugation of མཁོ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	མཁོ	mkho
Future	མཁོ	mkho
Past	མཁོ	mkho
Imperative	མཁོ	mkho

Derived terms

མཁོ་དགུ (mkho dgu)
མཁོ་དགོས (mkho dgos)
མཁོ་སྒྲུབ (mkho sgrub)
མཁོ་ཆས (mkho chas)
མཁོ་སྤྱད (mkho spyad)
མཁོ་སྤྲོད (mkho sprod)
མཁོ་བྱེད (mkho byed)
དགོས་མཁོ (dgos mkho)
རྒྱུན་མཁོ (rgyun mkho)
ཉེར་མཁོ (nyer mkho)

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