ངག

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ŋɐ̀k], [ŋɐ̀ː]

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ངག (ngak)

1. (transitive) to do
2. (auxiliary) Used to put emphasis on a main verb: to do
3. Short for ངག་སི (ngaksi, quotative marker).

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ངག (ngak)

1. (intransitive) to cool down

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 35
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79

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”)