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སེང

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Kurtöp

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སེང་ཟོན་

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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སེང (seng)

  1. tree
  2. wood
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Related to Dzongkha སེང (seng).

Verb

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སེང (seng)

  1. (transitive) to increase
    ཀདསེངkat sengto raise one's voice (literally, “to increase the voice”)

References

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

Tibetan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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སེང (seng)

  1. lion