The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromनिर्मित“build”
- Tibetan · borrowed fromསྤྲུལ་པ“emanation, magical creation”
- English todaytulpa
Borrowed from Tibetan སྤྲུལ་པ (sprul pa, “emanation, magical creation”), equivalent to a calque of Sanskrit निर्मित (nirmita, “build”) or निर्माण (nirmāṇa, “build”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.