གླག

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la(ŋ/k) (“falcon, vulture, eagle, kite, hawk, bird of prey”), which is likely a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *laŋ ~ *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ (“large raptor”). Compare Mon လနေၚ် (“kite”), Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng, “kite”). (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

Cognate to Jingpho gəlaŋ (“eagle, kite, hawk”), lang (“bird of the falcon family”); Mianchi Southern Qiang là (“kite, hawk”) and lá (“eagle, vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”). Possibly connected to Chinese 鷹／鹰 (yīng, “eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).

Doublet of རྒོད (rgod).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*glak/
• Lhasa: /la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*glak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lag^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /la(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

Noun

གླག • (glag)

1. eagle
2. Pallas's fish eagle, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)

Derived terms

• གླག་ཕྲུག (glag phrug)
• གླག་རོག (glag rog)

Related terms

• རྒོད (rgod)