སྦྱིན

See also: སྟོན་པ and སྤྲིན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bəj-n/k (“to give”). Cognate with Chinese 畀 (OC *pids, “to give”), 賓 (OC *mpin, “gift; to present a gift”), and Burmese ပေး (pe:).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zbʲin/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕĩ˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zbʲin/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jin^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕĩ˩˨/

Verb

སྦྱིན • (sbyin) (nominal form སྦྱིན་པ)

1. (transitive) to give, to bestow, to contribute, to offer, to make a present of
2. (transitive) to add, to supplement, to sum up
3. (transitive) to feed, to give to eat

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྦྱིན

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྦྱིན	sbyin
Future	སྦྱིན	sbyin
Past	བྱིན སྦྱིན (archaic) བྱིནད	byin sbyin byind
Imperative	བྱིན སྦྱིན (archaic) བྱིནད	byin sbyin byind

Derived terms

• སྦྱིན་བདག (sbyin bdag, “almsgiver”)