སད

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

For frost/cold air: Starostin connects this with Chinese 雪 (xuě).

Noun

སད • (sad)

  1. frost, cold air, coldness

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *swat (“awake”).

Verb

སད • (sad) (nominal form སད་པ)

  1. awaken, wake, wake up
  2. discriminate, sort, examine
  • གཉིད་སད (gnyid sad)
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