ཁྱི
khyi/*kʰʲi/
The Tibetan word for dog is ཁྱི (khyi).
The word is used to refer to the animal known as a dog.
Meaning: animal (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
The romanization is khyi. The pronunciation is /*kʰʲi/.
Did you know?
- Tibetan folklore often features the 'spirit dog' as a guide or protector in the Bardo, the intermediate state between death and rebirth.
- In traditional Tibetan astrology, the dog is one of the twelve animals of the zodiac, where it is associated with the element of earth and specific personality traits.
- The Tibetan word ཁྱི shares a prehistoric linguistic root with the Chinese word for dog 犬, reflecting a connection from the ancient Proto-Sino-Tibetan language.
Example sentences for Tibetan are not verified yet.
Example conversation
Two friends are talking about a pet in the street.
- བསྟན་འདུས། Tenzinལྷ་མོ། ཁྱི། དེ་ སུ་ཡིན།Lhamo, khyi de su yin?Lhamo, whose dog is that?
- ལྷ་མོ། Lhamoདེ་ ངའི་ ཁྱི། ཡིན།de ngai khyi yin.That is my dog.
- བསྟན་འདུས། Tenzinཁྱི། དེ་ མཛེས་པོ་ འདུགkhyi de mdzes po dug.That dog is beautiful.
- ལྷ་མོ། Lhamoདཀོན་མཆོག བཀྲ་ཤིས་ པར་ ཤོགkon mchog bkra shis par shog.Thank you, may you be auspicious.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “dog” translations and entries ཁྱི, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries ཁྱི, CC BY-SA 4.0.
