འཁོར་ལོ

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Tibetan

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Etymology

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A relationship with Chinese 軲轆轱辘 (gūlu, “wheel”) was proposed in Bauer (1994), and both were hypothesised to have been derived from a common Sino-Tibetan word, borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (wheel).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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འཁོར་ལོ ('khor lo)

  1. wheel
  2. vehicle, car, chariot
  3. machine, device
  4. chakra, cycle

Derived terms

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