臘

Glyph origin
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Etymology
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 * cites 's comment on the relation between and ;
 * instead relates it to a much later word written with the same phonetic & meaning "to cut off, to terminate" (of a year);
 * proposes an alternative etymology: just as the  word-family encompasses the meanings "leaf > foliage, year, generation"; so the root *râp "new year, change of year" is apparently a parallel etymon, which also is cognate with 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) year-end sacrifice to the gods
 * 2) twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
 * 3) dried preserved meat; cured meat

Noun

 * 1) a Buddhist ceremony held in winter on the third day of the dog
 * 2) the twelfth month of the lunar-solar calendar
 * 3) a year in Buddhism after one completes a meditation retreat