སེམས

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səm (“breath, spirit, mind”).

Pronunciation 1

Old Tibetan: /*sems/
Lhasa: /sam˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sems/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sam^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sam˥˨/

Verb

སེམས • (sems) (nominal form སེམས་པ)

(transitive) to think, to consider
(transitive) to fancy, to imagine

Conjugation

present	སེམས (sems)
future	བསམ (bsam)
past	བསམས (bsams) སེམས (sems)
imperative	སོམས (soms) སོམ (som)

Pronunciation 2

Old Tibetan: /*sems/
Lhasa: /sem˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sems/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sem^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sem˥˨/

Noun

སེམས • (sems)

mind, mental activity, spirit

Derived terms

སེམས་ཤོར (sems shor, “fall in love”)