ཤིང་ཚ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) +‎ ཚ (tsha, “spicy, hot”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ɕiŋ.t͡sʰa/
• Lhasa: /ɕiŋ˥˥.t͡saˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ɕiŋ.t͡sʰa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: xing^f-za
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕiŋ˥˥.t͡saˑ/

Noun

ཤིང་ཚ • (shing tsha)

1. cinnamon
   1. specifically Indian cassia (Cinnamomum tamala)

Descendants

• → Mongolian: шанц (šanc), шанцай (šancaj)

References

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