སེངྒེ

See also: སེང, སྙིང, and སྟོང

Tibetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung [script needed] (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (OC *sri), Proto-Iranian *cárguš (whence Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /⁠šagr, šēr⁠/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”)), Sanskrit सिंह (siṃha), Tocharian A śiśäk, Tocharian B ṣecake and Chechen цӏокъ (cʼoqʼ), among other Caucasian cognates.

Pronunciation

Noun

སེངྒེ • (sengge)

  1. lion

Proper noun

སེངྒེ • (sengge)

  1. a male given name
  2. (astrology) Leo
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