མཁྱེན

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken ~ m-kjen.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰʲen/
• Lhasa: /cʰẽ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰʲen/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kyen^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰẽ˥˨/

Verb

མཁྱེན • (mkhyen) (nominal form མཁྱེན་པ)

1. (honorific, transitive or intransitive) to know, to comprehend, to understand, to cognise

Conjugation

Conjugation of མཁྱེན (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	མཁྱེན	mkhyen
Future	མཁྱེན	mkhyen
Past	མཁྱེན	mkhyen
Imperative	མཁྱེན	mkhyen

Conjugation of མཁྱེན (Old Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	མཁྱེནད	mkhyend
Future	མཁྱེན	mkhyen
Past	མཁྱེནད	mkhyend
Imperative	མཁྱེནད	mkhyend

Derived terms

• ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)

References

• “མཁྱེན” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.