རྒྱ་ནག

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱ (rgya, “extent, size; country, empire”) +‎ ནག (nag, “black”), literally "the black expanse; the black empire".

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.nak/
• Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.na˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.nak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v-na^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨.na˥˨/

Proper noun

རྒྱ་ནག • (rgya nag)

1. China; in particular, regions populated by Han Chinese

   Synonym: ཀྲུང་གོ (krung go)

References

• “རྒྱ་ནག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.