བཙན་པོ

See also: བཙོན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

བཙན (btsan, “severe, strong, powerful”) +‎ པོ (po, “masculine agent suffix”). Related to བཙན་པ (btsan pa, “strict, powerful; power, force; king”), བརྩན (brtsan, “demon; secure, strong, mighty; king; power”), བཙན (btsan, “tsan spirit; ghost of hunting; secure, mighty; king; power, force”); ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-tsan (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*pt͡san.po/
• Lhasa: /t͡sɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*pt͡san.po/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zaen^f-bo^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Adjective

བཙན་པོ • (btsan po)

1. strong, violent
2. strict, stern
3. secure, safe

Noun

བཙན་པོ • (btsan po)

1. king; title for Tibetan emperors

Descendants

• → Middle Chinese: 贊普 (/*t͡sɑn^H pʰuo^X/)
  • Mandarin: 贊普／赞普 (zànpǔ)