གཏོང

གཏོང • (gtong) (nominal form གཏོང་བ)

1. send, dismiss, let go, cast away, give away
   • ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྔོན་དུ་ང་ཡི་ཕོ་ཉ་གཏོང

     khyed kyi sngon du nga yi pho nya gtong

     I am sending my messenger ahead of you.

2. let loose
3. play (a musical instrument)
4. administer, prescribe (medicine, pills)
5. drive, fly, operate

   གནམ་གྲུ་གཏོང

   gnam gru gtong

   to fly an airplace

6. make (forms verbs from adjectives)

   ཉུང་དུ་གཏོང

   nyung du gtong

   to lessen, to make fewer