སྔ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋa (“before; front”). Related to སྔོན (sngon).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zŋa/
• Lhasa: /ŋa˥˥/
• Batang: /ŋ̊a˥˧/
• Dêgê: /ŋ̊a˥˧/
• Bla-Brang: /hŋa/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zŋa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nga^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋa˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /ŋ̊a˥˧/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ŋ̊a˥˧/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hŋa/

Adjective

སྔ • (snga)

1. (usually in compounds) early, before, soon

   Antonym: ཕྱི (phyi)

Verb

སྔ • (snga) (nominal form སྔ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to be the first, to come first, to be beforehand

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྔ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྔ	snga
Future	སྔ	snga
Past	སྔས སྔ	sngas snga

Derived terms

• སྔ་དྲོ (snga dro)
• སྔ་པ (snga pa)
• སྔ་པོ (snga po)
• སྔ་ཕྱི (snga phyi)
• སྔ་བ (snga ba)
• སྔ་མ (snga ma)
• སྔ་མོ (snga mo)
• སྔ་སྨིན (snga smin)
• སྔ་ལོ (snga lo)