རླུང

See also: རང, རྙིང, རྨང, and རྫོང

Tibetan

Etymology

Cognate with Dzongkha རླུང་མ (rlung ma)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rluŋ/
Lhasa: /luŋ˥˥/
Batang: /lũ˥˥/
Arik: /wloŋ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rluŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lung^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /luŋ˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /lũ˥˥/
Amdo
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /wloŋ/

Noun

རླུང • (rlung)

wind, air
oral transmission

Derived terms

མཚོ་རླུང (mtsho rlung)
རླུང་འཁོར (rlung 'khor, “propeller”)
རླུང་འཚུབ (rlung 'tshub)
སྣུམ་རླུང (snum rlung, “natural gas”)
རླུང་རྟ (rlung rta, “wind-horse”)

References

“རླུང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“རླུང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.