ཞིང

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʑiŋ/
• Lhasa: /ɕiŋ˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʑiŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xing^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˩˨/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-liŋ.

Noun

ཞིང • (zhing)

1. field, ground, farmland
2. region, country, sphere, universe

Derived terms

• འབྲས་ཞིང ('bras zhing)
• ཚོགས་ཞིང (tshogs zhing)
• ཞིང་ག (zhing ga)
• ཞིང་གྲོང (zhing grong)
• ཞིང་ཆེན (zhing chen)
• ཞིང་སྡེ (zhing sde)
• ཞིང་པ (zhing pa)
• སོན་ཞིང (son zhing)

 

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

ཞིང • (zhing)

1. connective particle