སད

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sat/
• Lhasa: /sɛː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*sat/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: sae^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sɛː˥˨/

Etymology 1

For frost/cold air: Starostin connects this with Chinese 雪 (xuě).

Noun

སད • (sad)

1. frost, cold air, coldness

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *swat (“awake”).

Verb

སད • (sad) (nominal form སད་པ)

1. awaken, wake, wake up
2. discriminate, sort, examine

Related terms

• གཉིད་སད (gnyid sad)