སེང

See also: སེངྒེ, སྙིང, and སྟོང

Kurtöp

སེང་ཟོན་

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [séŋ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ. Cognates include Tibetan ཤིང (shing) and Dzongkha ཤིང (shing).

Noun

སེང (seng)

1. tree
2. wood

Derived terms

• སེང་ལེབ (senglep)

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha སེང (seng).

Verb

སེང (seng)

1. (transitive) to increase

   ཀད་སེང་ ― kat seng ― to raise one's voice (literally, “to increase the voice”)

References

• G. Hyslop, K. Tshering, K. Lhendrup, P. Chhophyel (2016) Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 225

Tibetan

Etymology

Abbreviation of སེང་གེ (seng ge, “lion”), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*seŋ/
• Lhasa: /seŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*seŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: seng^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /seŋ˥˥/

Noun

སེང • (seng)

1. lion