一切經音義 17.80

17.80

Camel (𩧐駞; [the first character is pronounced with the] fanqie tāng + [lu]ò. The second character is [pronounced with the] fanqie dá + [h]é. It is the name of a barbarian domestic animal; today it is called luòtuó. The Shanhaijing says: “Mount Hao has many camels.” Gu Yewang says: “With their fleshy saddles, they can bear heavy burdens and are good at walking to reach far distances.” Guo's commentary says: “They travel three hundred li in a day and are able to know where water springs are located.” The Gujin zhengzi says: “It is the name of an animal abundant in barbarian regions. Both take mǎ ‘horse’ as semantic classifier, and tuó and tā are both phonetics.” Tuó takes an abbreviated form of gǔn. Gǔn is [pronounced with the] fanqie hún + [k]ùn. Tuó has the pronunciation tuō).