སྨན་ཁང

Dzongkha

Noun

སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)

1. hospital

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of སྨན (sman, “medicine”) +‎ ཁང (khang, “building”).

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

སྨན་ཁང • (sman khang)

1. hospital

Derived terms

• སྨྱོན་པའི་སྨན་ཁང (smyon pa'i sman khang, “insane asylum”)