གླང་ཆེན

Tibetan

Etymology

From གླང (glang) +‎ ཆེན (chen, “large”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*glaŋ.t͡ɕʰen/
Lhasa: /laŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/
Bla-Brang: /hlaŋ tɕhe/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*glaŋ.t͡ɕʰen/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lang^f-qen^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /laŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hlaŋ tɕhe/

Noun

གླང་ཆེན • (glang chen)

elephant

See also

གླང་པོ་ཆེ (glang po che)
གླང་པོ (glang po)

References

“གླང་ཆེན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.