བྱང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲaŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨/
• Batang: /ɕõ˩˧/
• Dêgê: /ɕuŋ˩˧/
• Zêkog: /wɕaŋ/
• Bla-Brang: /ɕaŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qang^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ɕõ˩˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ɕuŋ˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /wɕaŋ/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ɕaŋ/

Noun

བྱང • (byang)

1. north
2. Short for བྱང་ཐང (byang thang, “northern steppe of Tibet”).

Derived terms

• བྱང་ཐང (byang thang)
• བྱང་པ (byang pa)
• བྱང་ཕྱོགས (byang phyogs)

 

See also

• (compass points)

	བྱང (byang)
ནུབ (nub)		ཤར (shar)
	ལྷོ (lho)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲaŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qang^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨/

Verb

བྱང • (byang) (nominal form བྱང་བ)

1. past of འབྱང ('byang)
2. imperative of འབྱང ('byang)

Derived terms

• བྱང་ཆུབ (byang chub)
• བྱང་བ (byang ba)

 

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲaŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲaŋ/ (reconstructed)

Verb

བྱང • (byang) (nominal form བྱང་བ)

1. (intransitive, of an experience) to be great

Conjugation

Conjugation of བྱང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	བྱང	byang
Future	བྱང	byang
Past	བྱང	byang

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲaŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲaŋ/ (reconstructed)

Verb

བྱང • (byang) (nominal form བྱང་བ)

1. (intransitive) to make something soft, smooth through wiping or touching

Conjugation

Conjugation of བྱང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	བྱང	byang
Future	བྱང	byang
Past	བྱང	byang