རྫོང

See also: རང, རྙིང, རྨང, and རླུང

Dzongkha

གླིང་བཞི་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་རྫོང།
'Lingzhi ü-gä dzong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡soŋ˩/

Noun

རྫོང (rdzong)

1. jong (a Tibetan or Bhutanese fortress)
2. province, district

Derived terms

• རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha)

Descendants

• → Kurtöp: ཟོང (zong)

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡soŋ˩˨/

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

Noun

རྫོང • (rdzong)

1. castle, fortress, jong, fort, district capital
2. district, province, county

   རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང

   rgyal rtse rdzong

   Gyantse County

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rd͡zoŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rd͡zoŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zang^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˩˧˨/

Verb

རྫོང • (rdzong) (nominal form རྫོང་བ)

1. (transitive) to send, to dispatch, to send off
2. (transitive) to expel, to banish
3. (transitive) to put stuff into, to insert

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྫོང

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྫོང རྫོངས	rdzong rdzongs
Future	བརྫང	brdzang
Past	བརྫངས རྫོངས	brdzangs rdzongs
Imperative	རྫོངས	rdzongs