མཁྱེན
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken.
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*mkʰʲen/
- Lhasa: /cʰẽ˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*mkʰʲen/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kyenh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /cʰẽ˥˨/
Verb
མཁྱེན • (mkhyen) (nominal form མཁྱེན་པ)
- (honorific, transitive or intransitive) to know, to comprehend, to understand, to cognise
Conjugation
| present | མཁྱེན (mkhyen) |
|---|---|
| future | མཁྱེན (mkhyen) |
| past | མཁྱེན (mkhyen) |
| imperative | མཁྱེན (mkhyen) |
| present | མཁྱེནད (mkhyend) |
|---|---|
| future | མཁྱེན (mkhyen) |
| past | མཁྱེནད (mkhyend) |
| imperative | མཁྱེནད (mkhyend) |
Derived terms
- ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)
References
- “མཁྱེན” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.