གནང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *naŋ (“to give, concede”). Cognate with 讓 (OC *njaŋs, “to concede; to allow”), 攘 (OC *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs, “to remove; to steal”), 禳 (OC *njaŋ, “to expel; to sacrifice to expel disasters”), Burmese နှင်း (hnang:, “to confer; to grant”), Burmese နှင် (hnang, “to drive away; to expel”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Verb

གནང • (gnang) (nominal form གནང་བ)

  1. (honorific) give, grant
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