དམ་འཛིན

Tibetan

Etymology

དམ (dam) +‎ འཛིན ('dzin)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*dam.ⁿd͡zin/
• Lhasa: /tʰəm˩˨.t͡sĩˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*dam.ⁿd͡zin/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tacm^v-zin
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰəm˩˨.t͡sĩˑ/

Noun

དམ་འཛིན • (dam 'dzin)

1. making best use of time
2. diligence, act of working hard
3. holding onto something

   རང་གི་རིག་གནས་དམ་འཛིན་བྱེད་ཐུགས་སུ་

   rang gi rig gnas dam 'dzin byed thugs su

   in order to hold onto one's culture

4. keeping one's word, abiding by a promise

Usage notes

Generally used with བྱེད (byed) as the verb.

Proper noun

དམ་འཛིན • (dam 'dzin)

1. a male given name

References

• “དམ་འཛིན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 527. →ISBN