ཉལ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”). Compare Chinese 瞑 (OC *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ, “to close the eyes”), 臥 (OC *ŋʷaːls, “to lie down”), 妥 (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “peaceful; to stop”), 綏 (OC *snul, “to pacify, comfort; tranquil”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ȵal/
Lhasa: /ȵɛː˩˨/
Batang: /ȵɛ˨˧˩/
Dêgê: /ȵe˩˧/
Zêkog: /ȵa/
Bla-Brang: /ȵal/
Arik: /ȵa/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ȵal/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyae^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵɛː˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵe˩˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵa/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵal/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵa/

Verb

ཉལ • (nyal) (nominal form ཉལ་བ)

(intransitive) to lie down, to recline
(intransitive) to sleep, to go to sleep

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཉལ (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཉལ	nyal
Future	ཉལ	nyal
Past	ཉལ	nyal
Imperative	ཉོལ	nyol

Conjugation of ཉལ (Old Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཉལ	nyal
Future	ཉལ	nyal
Past	ཉལད	nyald
Imperative	ཉོལད	nyold

Synonyms

གཟིམ (gzim, “to sleep, to fall asleep”)

Derived terms

ཉལ་ཁྲི (nyal khri, “bed”)
ཉལ་ཁེབས (nyal khebs, “bedspread”)
ཉལ་གདན (nyal gdan, “mattress”)
ཉལ་གཟན (nyal gzan, “blanket”)
ཉལ་ཆས (nyal chas, “bedding”)
ཉལ་རས (nyal ras, “sheet”)

Related terms

ཉལ་པོ (nyal po, “coition”)
མཉལ (mnyal, “(dialectal) same as ngal; to rest, fatigued”)
མཉལད (mnyald, “(archaic) to fall ill, to become sick”)
སྙལ (snyal, “to lay something down, to bed a person, to assign person a couch”)
གཉིད (gnyid, “sleep”)
མཉེལ (mnyel, “to be fatigued, tired”)
ཉེལ (nyel, “to be ill, to become sick”)
རྣལ (rnal, “rest, transquility; basic state, fundamental condition”)
མནལ (mnal, “sleep”)
ངལ (ngal, “to rest; fatigued”)
མངལ (mngal, “womb, uterus”)

References

“ཉལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“ཉལ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.