ཚན་རིག

Tibetan

Etymology

From ཚན (tshan, “part, item”) +‎ རིག (rig, “to know, knowledge”), possibly a calque of Chinese 科學／科学 (kēxué, “science [item/class/subject + study]”).

Pronunciation

• Lhasa: /t͡sʰɛ̃˥˥.ʐi˥˨/

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• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: caen^f-ri^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɛ̃˥˥.ʐi˥˨/

Noun

ཚན་རིག • (tshan rig)

1. (modern) science

   ཚན་རིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད་ཁང ― tshan rig brtag dpyad khang ― scientific research institute

   ཚན་རིག་ཚོད་ལྟ ― tshan rig tshod lta ― scientific experiment

   ཚན་རིག་ལག་རྩལ ― tshan rig lag rtsal ― science and technology

Derived terms

• ཚན་རིག་པ (tshan rig pa)
• ཚན་རིག་མཁས་པ (tshan rig mkhas pa, “scientist”)

See also

• རིག་གནས (rig gnas)