ས་ཡོམ
Tibetan
Etymology
ས (sa, “earth, soil”) + ཡོམ (yom, “to quiver, shake, be unsteady”)
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*sa.jom/
- Lhasa: /sa˥˥.jom˥˨/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*sa.jom/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: saf-yomh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /sa˥˥.jom˥˨/
Noun
ས་ཡོམ • (sa yom)
- earthquake
- 2025 January 7, Kunleng News[1], Voice of America Tibetan:
- ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་གོད་ཆག་ལ་ཐུགས་གསོའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན།
- sa yom gyi god chag la thugs gso'i gsung 'phrin
- A message of condolence to the victims of the earthquake.
Synonyms
References
- “ས་ཡོམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 133. University of California Press.