སྙིང

See also: སེང, སེངྒེ, and སྟོང

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“brain, heart, mind”).

Noun

སྙིང (snying)

heart
Synonym: སྡིལ (sdil)

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ.

Noun

སྙིང (snying) (Devanagari spelling स्ञिङ)

heart

Derived terms

སྙིང་འགྲུའ (snying 'gru')
སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)

References

Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *(s)niŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sni(ŋ~k) (“brain, heart, mind”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zȵiŋ/
Lhasa: /ȵiŋ˥˥/
Batang: /ȵĩ˥˥/
Dêgê: /ȵin˥˥/
Gyaitang: /ȵ̥i˥˥/
Zêkog: /rȵ̥aŋ/
Bla-Brang: /hȵaŋ/
Arik: /rȵ̥aŋ/
Maqu: /rȵ̥aŋ/
Mdung-Nag: /ʰȵəŋ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zȵiŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nying^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵiŋ˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵĩ˥˥/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵin˥˥/
- (Gyaitang) IPA^(key): /ȵ̥i˥˥/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /rȵ̥aŋ/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hȵaŋ/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rȵ̥aŋ/
- (Maqu) IPA^(key): /rȵ̥aŋ/
- (Mdung-Nag) IPA^(key): /ʰȵəŋ/

Noun

སྙིང • (snying)

“mind”
Plain	སྙིང (snying)
Honorific	ཐུགས (thugs)

See also

མགུལ་སྙིང (mgul snying)
སྙིང་རྗེ་པོ (snying rje po)