བཟང

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Chinese 臧 (OC *ʔsaːŋ, “good”) (Coblin, 1986).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bzaŋ/
• Lhasa: /saŋ˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bzaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sang^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /saŋ˩˧˨/

Adjective

བཟང • (bzang)

1. righteous, good

   Antonym: ངན (ngan)

Derived terms

• གཏམ་བཟང (gtam bzang)
• བློ་བཟང (blo bzang)
• བཟང་ངན (bzang ngan)