Nang

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nang"

English

Etymology

From Tibetan སྣང (snang).

Proper noun

Nang

1. A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1996 January, “Southern Tibet”, in Gyurme Dorje, editor, Tibet Handbook: with Bhutan‎^[1], Passport Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 288, column 1:

     Nang county is the name given to the present administrative division of E Dakpo, the principal gateway to the sacred mountain of Tsari, and the region through which the Brahmaputra River cuts its way through an unnavigable 33 km horse-shoe gorge as it flows towards Longpo and Kongpo.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Lang

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 朗縣 / 朗县 (long⁵ jyun⁶)

  Mandarin: 朗縣 / 朗县 (zh) (Lǎngxiàn)

• Tibetan: སྣང (snang)