འབྱུང་ཁུངས

Tibetan

Etymology

འབྱུང ('byung) +‎ ཁུངས (khungs)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵐbʲuŋ.kʰuŋs/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕuŋ˩˨.kuŋˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵐbʲuŋ.kʰuŋs/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jung^v-gung
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕuŋ˩˨.kuŋˑ/

Noun

འབྱུང་ཁུངས • ('byung khungs)

1. source, origin

   འབྱུང་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང

   'byung khungs kyi khyim tshang

   family origin

2. (grammar) traditional name for the particles ལས (las) and ནས (nas), corresponding to the ablative and the elative respectively