སྨན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

སྨན (sman, “medicine”) +‎ པ (pa, agent suffix).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zman.pa/
• Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Batang: /m̥ẽ˥˥. mba˥˧/
• Dêgê: /m̥en˥˥ .ba˥˧/
• Gyaitang: /mɛ˥˥.nba˥˥/
• Zêkog: /ɣm̥an.mba/
• Bla-Brang: /hman.pa/
• Arik: /rm̥an.pæ/
• Mdung-Nag: /ʰman.pa/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zman.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: maen^f-ba^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /m̥ẽ˥˥. mba˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /m̥en˥˥ .ba˥˧/
  • (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /mɛ˥˥.nba˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɣm̥an.mba/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hman.pa/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rm̥an.pæ/
  • (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʰman.pa/

Noun

སྨན་པ • (sman pa)

1. doctor, physician

   Synonyms: ཨེམ་ཆི (em chi), ལྷ་རྗེ (lha rje)

   སྨན་པ་བསྟེན ― sman pa bsten ― to see a doctor

   སྨན་པ་གྲགས་ཅན ― sman pa grags can ― renowned doctor

Derived terms

• སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen)
• སྨན་པ་གྲྭ་ཚང (sman pa grwa tshang)
• གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ (gshag gcod sman pa)

 

Descendants

• → Mangghuer: manba
• → Mongghul: smanba
• → Wutunhua: mangba