གངས
Tibetan
Etymology
Linked to Chinese 剛 / 刚 (“strong, firm”) and 鋼 / 钢 (“steel”) by Schuessler (2007; pp. 250-251). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rkaŋ for more related words.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ɡaŋs/
- Lhasa: /kʰaŋ˩˧˨/
- Zêkog: /kɒŋ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ɡaŋs/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kangw
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /kʰaŋ˩˧˨/
- Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA(key): /kɒŋ/
Noun
གངས • (gangs)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- གངས་དཀར (gangs dkar)
- གངས་ཆུ (gangs chu, “meltwater”)
- གངས་ཆེན (gangs chen, “glacier”)
- གངས་བཏང (gangs btang, “to snow”)
- གངས་ཕྱིད (gangs phyid, “frostbite”)
- གངས་འུར (gangs 'ur, “snowstorm”)
- གངས་ར (gangs ra)
- གངས་རི (gangs ri, “glacier”)
- གངས་རུད (gangs rud, “avalanche”)
- གངས་ལྷམ (gangs lham, “snowshoe”)
- གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ (gangs shur mo ṭa, “snowmobile”)