སྙིང

See also: སེང, སེངྒེ, and སྟོང

Ladakhi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“brain, heart, mind”).

Noun

སྙིང (snying)

1. heart

   Synonym: སྡིལ (sdil)

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ.

Noun

སྙིང (snying) (Devanagari spelling स्ञिङ)

1. heart

Derived terms

• སྙིང་འགྲུའ (snying 'gru')
• སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)

 

References

• Sherpa Dictionary by Nicolas Tournadre & al., Kathmandu 2009

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“brain, heart, mind”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zȵiŋ/
• Lhasa: /ȵiŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zȵiŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nying^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵiŋ˥˥/

Noun

སྙིང • (snying)

“mind”

Plain	སྙིང (snying)
Honorific	ཐུགས (thugs)

1. heart
2. mind
3. essence
4. feeling, attitude
5. courage
6. spirit, soul
7. conscience

See also

• མགུལ་སྙིང (mgul snying)
• སྙིང་རྗེ་པོ (snying rje po)