ཉན

Tibetan

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan མཉནད (mnyand, “to listen”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nyan (“to hear; to listen”). Cognate with Chinese 認 / 认 (rèn, “to recognize”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ȵan/
• Lhasa: /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
• Batang: /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
• Dêgê: /ȵen˩˧/
• Zêkog: /ȵan/
• Bla-Brang: /ȵan/
• Arik: /ȵan/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ȵan/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nyaen^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵen˩˧/
• Amdo
  • (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵan/

Verb

ཉན • (nyan) (nominal form ཉན་པ)

1. (with dative) to listen
2. (with dative) to obey

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཉན (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཉན	nyan
Future	ཉན	nyan
Past	ཉནད	nyand
Imperative	ཉོནད	nyond

Derived terms

• ཉན་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (nyan byed 'phrul chas)