རྫོང
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡soŋ˩/
Noun
རྫོང (rdzong)
Derived terms
- རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha)
Descendants
- → Kurtöp: ཟོང (zong)
Tibetan
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
- Lhasa: /t͡soŋ˩˨/
- Bla-Brang: /d͡zoŋ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rd͡zoŋ/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zongv
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡soŋ˩˨/
- Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /d͡zoŋ/
Noun
རྫོང • (rdzong)
- castle, fortress, jong, fort, district capital
- 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
- Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
- Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rd͡zoŋ/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zangw
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/
Verb
རྫོང • (rdzong) (nominal form རྫོང་བ)
- (transitive) to send, to dispatch, to send off
- (transitive) to expel, to banish
- (transitive) to put stuff into, to insert
Conjugation
| present | རྫོང (rdzong) རྫོངས (rdzongs) |
|---|---|
| future | བརྫང (brdzang) |
| past | བརྫངས (brdzangs) རྫོངས (rdzongs) |
| imperative | རྫོངས (rdzongs) |