སྟོན

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-twaŋ (“to see; to show”). Causative of མཐོང (mthong, “to see”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Verb

སྟོན • (ston) (nominal form སྟོན་པ)

  1. (transitive) to show
  2. (transitive) to face, to front, to look towards
  3. (transitive) to point out, to indicate, to describe, to explain, to teach
  4. (transitive) to speak, to tell
Conjugation
present སྟོན (ston)
future བསྟན (bstan)
past བསྟན (bstan)
(archaic) བསྟནད (bstand)
imperative སྟོན (ston)
(archaic) སྟོནད (stond)
Derived terms
  • འགྲེམས་སྟོན ('grems ston)

Etymology 2

Noun

སྟོན • (ston)

  1. See སྟོན་ཀ (ston ka, “autumn”) and སྟོན་ཁ (ston kha, “autumn”).

Zangskari

Noun

སྟོན (ston)

  1. autumn

References

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