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anal, chronicle, records, documents, records, catalogues, registers, lists, books [RY]
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historical book, annals [RY]
 
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Borrowed from Persian دفتر‎ (''daftar''), ultimately from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (''diphthérā'', “parchment”). The spelling with གཏེར ([[deb gter]]) is based on a folk etymology connecting it to the meaning "treasure". Thus it appears that this is the origin of ''[[deb]]'', the main Tibetan word for "book". [Erick Tsiknopoulos]
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Annals, historical annals, literary annals, chronicles, historical chronicles, records, record books, documents, catalogs, registers, listings, books. Borrowed from Persian دفتر‎ (''daftar''), ultimately from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (''diphthérā'', “parchment”). There is also an irregular spelling with གཏེར ([[deb gter]]) which is based on a 'folk etymology' connecting it to the meaning "treasure", due to the similarity of the the Persian-Greek words ''tar/thérā'' with the Tibetan word. Thus it appears that this Greco-Persian etymology is also the origin of ''[[deb]]'', the main Tibetan word for "book", as the monosyllabic [[deb]] is derived from the longer word ''[[deb ther]]''. [Erick Tsiknopoulos]
  
 
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annal, chronicle, records, documents, records, catalogues, registers, lists, books [RY]

annals, chronicle, records, documents, records, catalogues, registers, lists, books [IW]

register, documents, catalogues, anything recorded in writing or stitched together [JV]

historical book, annals [RY]

Annals, historical annals, literary annals, chronicles, historical chronicles, records, record books, documents, catalogs, registers, listings, books. Borrowed from Persian دفتر‎ (daftar), ultimately from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “parchment”). There is also an irregular spelling with གཏེར (deb gter) which is based on a 'folk etymology' connecting it to the meaning "treasure", due to the similarity of the the Persian-Greek words tar/thérā with the Tibetan word. Thus it appears that this Greco-Persian etymology is also the origin of deb, the main Tibetan word for "book", as the monosyllabic deb is derived from the longer word deb ther. [Erick Tsiknopoulos]