གཙང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clean; pure; clear”). Cognate with Chinese 清、淨.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kt͡saŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kt͡saŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Adjective

གཙང • (gtsang)

1. clean, pure; See གཙང་བ (gtsang ba).

   Antonym: བཙོག (btsog)

Derived terms

• གཙང་དག (gtsang dag)
• གཙང་དུས (gtsang dus)
• གཙང་བ (gtsang ba)
• གཙང་བཙོག (gtsang btsog)

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kt͡saŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kt͡saŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Proper noun

གཙང • (gtsang)

1. Name of a historical province of Central Tibet.
2. The southwestern part of Central Tibet, representing the area of the former province.

Derived terms

• དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang)
• གཙང་སྐད (gtsang skad)
• གཙང་པ (gtsang pa)
• གཙང་སྦྲ (gtsang sbra)
• གཙང་མ (gtsang ma)

 

Descendants

• → Chinese: 藏 (Zàng)
• → Wutunhua: zang