སེང་གེ
Tibetan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung [script needed] (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (OC *sri), Proto-Iranian *cárguš (whence Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”)), Sanskrit सिंह (siṃha), Tocharian A śiśäk, Tocharian B ṣecake and Chechen цӏокъ (cʼoqʼ), among other Caucasian cognates.
Pronunciation
edit- Old Tibetan: /*seŋ.ɡe/
- Lhasa: /seŋ˥˥.ke˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sengf-gef
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /seŋ˥˥.ke˥˥/
Noun
editསེང་གེ • (seng ge)