ཐང

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɐ́ŋ]

Etymology 1

Related to Dzongkha ཐང (thang) and Tibetan ཐང (thang).

Noun

ཐང (thang)

1. plains, flatland

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha འཐེན ('then) and Tibetan འཐེན ('then).

Verb

ཐང (thang)

1. (transitive) to pull

   ཇུ་ཐང ― ju thang ― to milk (literally, “to pull milk”)

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 87

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Old Chinese 敞 (*tʰjaŋʔ, “open; spacious”) (Coblin, 1986).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰaŋ/
• Lhasa: /tʰaŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཐང • (thang)

1. plain, plains, flatland

Derived terms

• དཀྱིལ་ཐང (dkyil thang)
• ཐང་པ (thang pa, “plain-dweller”)
• ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa, “quarried salt”)
• གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང (gnam gru thang, “airport”)
• བྱེ་ཐང (bye thang, “desert”)

References

• “ཐང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཐང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
• Charles Alfred Bell's English–Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 364.