འཛིན

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *zuŋ. The final nasal in the present stem was fronted from velar to coronal due to a now-lost coronal suffix.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ⁿd͡zin/
Lhasa: /sim˩˨/, /t͡sĩ˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ⁿd͡zin/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sim^v, zin^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sim˩˨/, /t͡sĩ˩˨/

Verb

འཛིན • ('dzin) (nominal form འཛིན་པ)

(transitive) to take hold of, to seize, to grasp

Conjugation

present	འཛིན ('dzin) (archaic) འཛིནད ('dzind)
future	གཟུང (gzung) གཟུངས (gzungs)
past	བཟུང (bzung) བཟུངས (bzungs)
imperative	ཟུངས (zungs) ཟུང (zung)

Derived terms

བསྟན་འཛིན (bstan 'dzin)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ⁿd͡zin/
Lhasa: /t͡sĩ˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ⁿd͡zin/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zin^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sĩ˩˨/

Noun

འཛིན • ('dzin)

written agreement, written pledge, note, contract, receipt

Derived terms

བྱུང་འཛིན (byung 'dzin)