འོང་སྐོར

Tibetan

Etymology

འོང ('ong) +‎ སྐོར (skor), in reference to the practice of walking around the perimeter of the field.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɣoŋ.skor/
• Lhasa: /ʔoŋ˩˨.koː(ɹ)ˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɣoŋ.skor/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ong^v-gor
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʔoŋ˩˨.koː(ɹ)ˑ/

Noun

འོང་སྐོར • ('ong skor)

1. Ongkor, also known as the Horse Race festival; a traditional Tibetan festival at the end of summer.

   འོང་སྐོར་ལ་འགྲོ

   'ong skor la 'gro

   to go on Ongkor

   འོང་སྐོར་གཏོང

   'ong skor gtong

   to do Ongkor, to conduct an Ongkor ritual

Derived terms

• འོང་སྐོར་དུས་ཆེན ('ong skor dus chen)

References

• “འོང་སྐོར” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.