ཞིང

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ʑiŋ/
Lhasa: /ɕiŋ˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ʑiŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xing^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˩˨/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *liŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-liŋ.

Noun

ཞིང • (zhing)

field, ground, farmland
region, country, sphere, universe

Derived terms

འབྲས་ཞིང ('bras zhing)
ཚོགས་ཞིང (tshogs zhing)
ཞིང་ག (zhing ga)
ཞིང་གྲོང (zhing grong)
ཞིང་ཆེན (zhing chen)
ཞིང་སྡེ (zhing sde)
ཞིང་པ (zhing pa)
སོན་ཞིང (son zhing)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

ཞིང • (zhing)

connective particle