ཤིང

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˥/

Noun

ཤིང (shing)

1. wood

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiŋ/

Noun

ཤིང (shing)

1. wood

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɕiŋ/
• Lhasa: /ɕiŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɕiŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xing^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཤིང • (shing)

1. tree, wood

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ཤིང་སྡོང (shing sdong, “tree”)
• ཤིང་ནགས (shing nags, “forest”)
• གསེར་ཤིང (gser shing, “wish-fulfilling tree”)
• ལྗོན་ཤིང (ljon shing, “evergreen tree”)
• ཐང་ཤིང (thang shing, “pine, fir”)
• སོ་ཤིང (so shing, “toothpick”)
• ཤིང་དུམ (shing dum, “log”)
• ཤིང་གི་པགས་པ (shing gi pags pa, “bark”)
• ཤིང་པགས (shing pags, “bark”)
• ཤིང་ཤུན (shing shun, “bark”)
• ཤིང་ཁྲོལ (shing khrol, “tray”)
• ཤིང་གྲུ (shing gru)
• སློབ་ཤིང (slob shing, “blackboard”)

References

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