མིང

Bumthangkha

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan མིང (ming).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miŋ˩˧/

Noun

མིང (ming)

1. name

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meŋ˩/

Noun

མིང (ming)

1. name, title

Kurtöp

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan མིང (ming).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mìŋ]

Noun

མིང (ming)

1. name

Synonyms

• མེང (meng) (inherited form)

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 153
• Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017) A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 159

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ. Cognate with Chinese 名 (míng).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*miŋ/
• Lhasa: /miŋ˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*miŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ming^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /miŋ˩˨/

Noun

“name”

Plain	མིང (ming)
Honorific	མཚན (mtshan)

མིང • (ming)

1. name, designation
2. word, term

Derived terms

• གཅེས་མིང (gces ming)
• མིང་འདོགས (ming 'dogs)
• མིང་ཚབ (ming tshab)
• མིང་ཚིག (ming tshig)
• མིང་རྫུས་མ (ming rdzus ma)

Descendants

• → Bumthangkha: མིང (ming)
• → Kurtöp: མིང (ming)