གཤེན
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Has been linked to ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand”) with a nominalizing circumfix; compare གཉེན (gnyen, “friend, relative”) and ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near, dear”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*kɕen/
- Lhasa: /ɕẽ˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xenf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɕẽ˥˥/
Noun[edit]
གཤེན • (gshen)
References[edit]
- “གཤེན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- The template Template:bo-ref does not use the parameter(s):
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