ས་ཡོམ
Appearance
Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ས (sa, “earth, soil”) + ཡོམ (yom, “to quiver, shake, be unsteady”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- Old Tibetan: /*sa.jom/
- Lhasa: /sa˥˥.jomˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: saf-yom
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /sa˥˥.jomˑ/
Noun
[edit]ས་ཡོམ • (sa yom)
- earthquake
- 2025 January 7, Kunleng News[1], Voice of America Tibetan:
- ས་ཡོམ་གྱི་གོད་ཆག་ལ་ཐུགས་གསོའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན།
- sa yom gyi god chag la thugs gso'i gsung 'phrin
- A message of condolence to the victims of the earthquake.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “ས་ཡོམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984). English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, page 133. University of California Press.