Etymology

'Phags-pa

Today it means: An alphabet designed in the 1200s by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. Full definition →

Tibetan འཕགས་པ
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  1. Tibetan · derived fromའཕགས་པ
  2. English today'Phags-pa

From Tibetan འཕགས་པ ('phags pa, literally “noble”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.