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From Modern Chinese

  • མེ་འཁོར་ “Train” (huo che). (Formed with མེ་ = huo “fire” and འཁོར་ = che “car.”)
  • གློག་བརྙན་ “Cinema” (dian yin). (Formed with གློག་ = dian “electric,” བརྙན་ = yin “image.”)
  • གློག་ཀླད་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་ “Computer” (dian nao). (Formed with གློག་ = dian “electric” and ཀླད་ = nao “brain” + འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་ “machine.”)
  • རྡོ་སྣུམ་ “Petrol,” “gasoline” (shi you). (Formed with རྡོ་ = shi “stone” and སྣུམ་ = you “oil,” cf. Latin petra + oleum “petrol.”)
  • From Modern Chinese (English, Latin script, Original)
Subject ID: S5331