རྫོང

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡soŋ˩/

Noun

རྫོང (rdzong)

  1. jong (a Tibetan or Bhutanese fortress)
  2. province, district

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Kurtöp: ཟོང (zong)

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation


Noun

རྫོང • (rdzong)

  1. castle, fortress, jong, fort, district capital
  2. district, province, county
    རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང
    rgyal rtse rdzong
    Gyantse County

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation


Verb

རྫོང • (rdzong) (nominal form རྫོང་བ)

  1. (transitive) to send, to dispatch, to send off
  2. (transitive) to expel, to banish
  3. (transitive) to put stuff into, to insert
Conjugation
present རྫོང (rdzong)
རྫོངས (rdzongs)
future བརྫང (brdzang)
past བརྫངས (brdzangs)
རྫོངས (rdzongs)
imperative རྫོངས (rdzongs)