ཐང
Tibetan
editEtymology
editCompare Old Chinese 敞 (*tʰjaŋʔ, “open; spacious”) (Coblin, 1986).
Pronunciation
edit- Old Tibetan: /*tʰaŋ/
- Lhasa: /tʰaŋ˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tangf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /tʰaŋ˥˥/
Noun
editཐང • (thang)
Derived terms
edit- དཀྱིལ་ཐང (dkyil thang)
- ཐང་པ (thang pa, “plain-dweller”)
- ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa, “quarried salt”)
- གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང (gnam gru thang, “airport”)
- བྱེ་ཐང (bye thang, “desert”)
References
edit- “ཐང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- “ཐང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
- Charles Alfred Bell's English–Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 364.