ཨ་ཞང

Ladakhi

Noun

ཨ་ཞང (a zhang)

1. maternal uncle
2. (slang) monk

Tibetan

Etymology

ཨ (a) +‎ ཞང (zhang)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ʔa.ʑaŋ/
• Lhasa: /ʔa˥˥.ɕaŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ʔa.ʑaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: a^f-xang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʔa˥˥.ɕaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཨ་ཞང • (a zhang)

1. maternal uncle