ཤིང་ཀུན

Tibetan

Etymology

ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) +‎ ཀུན (kun). Borrowed from Sanskrit हिङ्गु (hiṅgu), with phono-semantic matching.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ɕiŋ.kun/
Lhasa: /ɕiŋ˥˥.kỹˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ɕiŋ.kun/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xing^f-guen
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˥˥.kỹˑ/

Noun

ཤིང་ཀུན • (shing kun)

asafoetida, hing (Ferula assa-foetida)

Descendants

→ Mongolian: шингүн (šingün)

References

“ཤིང་ཀུན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 1098.