རླུང

See also: རང, རྙིང, རྨང, and རྫོང

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Dzongkha རླུང་མ (rlung ma)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rluŋ/
• Lhasa: /luŋ˥˥/
• Batang: /lũ˥˥/
• Arik: /wloŋ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rluŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: lung^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /luŋ˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /lũ˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /wloŋ/

Noun

རླུང • (rlung)

1. wind, air
2. oral transmission

Derived terms

• མཚོ་རླུང (mtsho rlung)
• རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor, “propeller”)
• རླུང་འཚུབ (rlung 'tshub)
• སྣུམ་རླུང (snum rlung, “natural gas”)
• རླུང་རྟ (rlung rta, “wind-horse”)

References

• “རླུང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “རླུང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.