ཚན་རིག
Tibetan
Etymology
From ཚན (tshan, “part, item”) + རིག (rig, “to know, knowledge”), possibly a calque of Chinese 科學／科学 (kēxué, “science [item/class/subject + study]”).
Pronunciation
- Lhasa: /t͡sʰɛ̃˥˥.ʐi˥˨/
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: caenf-rih
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡sʰɛ̃˥˥.ʐi˥˨/
Noun
ཚན་རིག • (tshan rig)
- (modern) science
- ཚན་རིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད་ཁང ― tshan rig brtag dpyad khang ― scientific research institute
- ཚན་རིག་ཚོད་ལྟ ― tshan rig tshod lta ― scientific experiment
- ཚན་རིག་ལག་རྩལ ― tshan rig lag rtsal ― science and technology
Derived terms
- ཚན་རིག་པ (tshan rig pa)
- ཚན་རིག་མཁས་པ (tshan rig mkhas pa, “scientist”)
See also
- རིག་གནས (rig gnas)