ངག

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Old Chinese 語 (OC *ŋaʔ)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ŋak/
• Lhasa: /ŋa˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ŋak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nga^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋa˩˧˨/

Noun

ངག • (ngag)

1. speech, voice

Derived terms

• སྙན་ངག (snyan ngag, “poem”)

Related terms

• དངགས (dngags) in སྙན་དངགས (snyan dngags, “poetry”)
• མངག (mngag, “to commission, to charge, to delegate”)
• སྔག (sngag, “to praise, to commend, to extol”)
• སྔགས (sngags, “spell, mantra”)