ཐང
Kurtöp
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t̪ʰɐ́ŋ]
Etymology 1
Related to Dzongkha ཐང (thang) and Tibetan ཐང (thang).
Noun
ཐང (thang)
Etymology 2
Related to Dzongkha འཐེན ('then) and Tibetan འཐེན ('then).
Verb
ཐང (thang)
- (transitive) to pull
- ཇུ་ཐང ― ju thang ― to milk (literally, “to pull milk”)
References
- G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 87
Tibetan
Etymology
Compare Old Chinese 敞 (*tʰjaŋʔ, “open; spacious”) (Coblin, 1986), from which Proto-Sino-Tibetan *taŋ (“open, spacious”) is reconstructible.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*tʰaŋ/
- Lhasa: /tʰaŋ˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*tʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tangf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /tʰaŋ˥˥/
Noun
ཐང • (thang)
Derived terms
- དཀྱིལ་ཐང (dkyil thang)
- ཐང་པ (thang pa, “plain-dweller”)
- ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa, “quarried salt”)
- གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང (gnam gru thang, “airport”)
- བྱེ་ཐང (bye thang, “desert”)
References
- “ཐང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- “ཐང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
- Charles Alfred Bell's English–Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 364.