སྟག

See also: སྣག and སྲོག

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan སྟག (stag), from Proto-Bodish *s-tag.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɑː˥/

Noun

སྟག (stag)

tiger (Panthera tigris)

Derived terms

སྟག་པ་ཤིང (stag pa shing)
སྟག་ལྤགས (stag lpags)
སྟག་ཕྲུག (stag phrug)
སྟག་མོ (stag mo)
སྟག་ཚང (stag tshang)
སྟག་ཚེར་མེ་ཏོག (stag tsher me tog)

References

Dzongkha-English Pocket Dictionary, 2nd edition, Thimphu, Bhutan: Dzongkha Development Commission, 2013, →ISBN, page 338

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *s-tag (“tiger”) (STEDT).

Noun

སྟག (stag) (Devanagari spelling स्तग)

tiger

See also

སྟག་ལོ (stag lo)

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *s-tag (“tiger”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*stak/
Lhasa: /ta˥˨/
Batang: /tɑʔ⁵³/
Dêgê: /tɑʔ⁵³/
Bla-Brang: /htak/
Arik: /rtak/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*stak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: da^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ta˥˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /tɑʔ⁵³/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tɑʔ⁵³/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /htak/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /rtak/

Noun

སྟག • (stag)

tiger

Derived terms

སྟག་དཀར (stag dkar)
སྟག་སྟན (stag stan)
སྟག་སྟོད (stag stod)
སྟག་ཐུལ (stag thul)
སྟག་དོང (stag dong)
སྟག་ལྡན (stag ldan)
སྟག་སྡེ (stag sde)
སྟག་ལྤགས (stag lpags)
སྟག་ཕྲུག (stag phrug)
སྟག་སྦྲང (stag sbrang)
སྟག་མོ (stag mo)

Descendants

→ Wutunhua: dak

References

“སྟག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“སྟག” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984) English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 444. →ISBN
James A. Matisoff, editor (2015), The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus