རྫོང

See also: རང, རྙིང, རྨང, and རླུང

Dzongkha edit

གླིང་བཞི་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་རྫོང།
'Lingzhi ü-gä dzong.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /t͡soŋ˩/

Noun edit

རྫོང (rdzong)

jong (a Tibetan or Bhutanese fortress)
province, district

Derived terms edit

རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha)

Tibetan edit

Etymology 1 edit

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”) (STEDT). Possibly cognate with Chinese 宗 (zōng, “ancestral temple; school; sect; purpose”).”

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
Lhasa: /t͡soŋ˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rd͡zoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zong^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡soŋ˩˨/

Noun edit

རྫོང • (rdzong)

castle, fortress, jong, fort, district capital
district, province, county
རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང
rgyal rtse rdzong
Gyantse County

Etymology 2 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rd͡zoŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zang^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/

Verb edit

རྫོང • (rdzong) (nominal form རྫོང་བ)

(transitive) to send, to dispatch, to send off
(transitive) to expel, to banish
(transitive) to put stuff into, to insert

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of རྫོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྫོང རྫོངས	rdzong rdzongs
Future	བརྫང	brdzang
Past	བརྫངས རྫོངས	brdzangs rdzongs
Imperative	རྫོངས	rdzongs