གཡོན་ཕྱོགས

Tibetan

Etymology

གཡོན (g.yon) +‎ ཕྱོགས (phyogs).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɡjon.pʰʲoks/
• Lhasa: /jø̃˥˥.t͡ɕoː˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɡjon.pʰʲoks/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: yoen^f-joo^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /jø̃˥˥.t͡ɕoː˥˨/

Noun

གཡོན་ཕྱོགས • (g.yon phyogs)

1. left, left-hand side

   Antonym: གཡས་ཕྱོགས (g.yas phyogs)

   • 2019, New Tibetan Bible, Matthew 25:33:

     ལུག་རྣམས་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་དང་ར་མ་རྣམས་གཡོན་ཕྱོགས་སུ་ཡོད་པར་བྱེད་དོ༎

     lug rnams g.yas phyogs dang ra ma rnams g.yon phyogs su yod par byed do.

     And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

2. (politics) the left, leftist

References

• “གཡོན་ཕྱོགས” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.