སྨན

See also: སྤྱན and སྤྲིན

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /men˥/
• (literary) IPA^(key): /mɛːn˥/

Noun

སྨན (sman)

1. medicine, drug, pharmaceutical
2. cure

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Cognates include Sulung ɕə³³min³³, Tshangla man⁵⁵, Thakali mɔn, Southern Pumi m̥ɛ̃⁵⁵, Queyu sme⁵⁵, Achang mjɑ³¹.

Noun

སྨན (sman)

1. medicine

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Drung mvn (“medicine”), Chinese 萬 (“ritual dance”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zman/
• Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zman/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: maen^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mɛ̃˥˥/

Noun

སྨན • (sman)

1. drug, medicine, medication
2. herb, remedy
3. she-demons worshipped by common folk

Derived terms

• གློག་སྨན (glog sman, “battery”)
• གཉིད་སྨན (gnyid sman)
• དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman, “deodorant”)
• ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་སྨན (na zug 'jags sman, “painkiller”)
• ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་ཡག་གི་སྨན (na zug 'jags yag gi sman, “painkiller”)
• འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman, “insecticide”)
• སྦི་ཅི་ལིའི་སྨན (sbi ci li'i sman, “battery”)
• སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)
• སྨན་ཁབ (sman khab, “hypodermic needle”)
• སྨན་ཁྲོག (sman khrog)
• སྨན་བཅོས (sman bcos)
• སྨན་ཐུན (sman thun)
• སྨན་ཐོ་ (sman tho)
• སྨན་སྣ (sman sna)
• སྨན་པ (sman pa)
• སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang)
• སྨན་རས (sman ras, “bandage”)
• སྨན་རྫས (sman rdzas)
• སྨན་ལེབ (sman leb)
• ཤུབས་སྨན (shubs sman)
• བཤལ་སྨན (bshal sman, “laxative”)
• སོ་སྨན (so sman)