སེང

See also: སེངྒེ, སྙིང, and སྟོང

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [séŋ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *siŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ. Cognates include Tibetan ཤིང (shing) and Dzongkha ཤིང (shing).

Noun

སེང (seng)

  1. tree
  2. wood
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha སེང (seng).

Verb

སེང (seng)

  1. (transitive) to increase
    ཀད་སེང་ ― kat seng ― to raise one's voice (literally, “to increase the voice”)

References

  • G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 225

Tibetan

Etymology

Abbreviation of སེང་གེ (seng ge, “lion”), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”).

Pronunciation

Noun

སེང • (seng)

  1. lion
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