འཐུང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *N/s-tuŋ (“to drink, to suckle”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ⁿtʰuŋ/
• Lhasa: /tʰuŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ⁿtʰuŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tung^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰuŋ˥˥/

Verb

འཐུང • ('thung) (nominal form འཐུང་བ)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to drink, to imbibe fluid

Conjugation

Conjugation of འཐུང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	འཐུང	'thung
Future	བཏུང	btung
Past	བཏུངས འཐུངས	btungs 'thungs
Imperative	ཐུངས འཐུངས	thungs 'thungs

Derived terms

• འཐུང་ཡག ('thung yag, “fountain”)