January 03, 2014

པད་ཚལ།

The Tibetan word pad tshal for “Chinese cabbage” although sounds like a Tibetan word meaning “Lotus Garden/Vegetable?” (i.e. padma’i tshal) is actually a loan word from the Chinese 白菜 (lit. “white vegetable”). Cf. bsTan-gos’s Bod skad ming brda rig pa (p. 63).

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