སྟག

See also: སྣག and སྲོག

Dzongkha

སྟག

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan སྟག (stag), from Proto-Bodish *s-tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑː˥/

Noun

སྟག (stag)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris)

Derived terms

• སྟག་པ་ཤིང (stag pa shing)
• སྟག་ལྤགས (stag lpags)
• སྟག་ཕྲུག (stag phrug)
• སྟག་མོ (stag mo)
• སྟག་ཚང (stag tshang)
• སྟག་ཚེར་མེ་ཏོག (stag tsher me tog)

References

• Dzongkha-English Pocket Dictionary, 2nd edition, Thimphu, Bhutan: Dzongkha Development Commission, 2013, →ISBN, page 338

Sherpa

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *s-tag (“tiger”) (STEDT).

Noun

སྟག (stag) (Devanagari spelling स्तग)

1. tiger

See also

• སྟག་ལོ (stag lo)

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Bodish *s-tag (“tiger”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*stak/
• Lhasa: /ta˥˨/
• Batang: /tɑʔ⁵³/
• Dêgê: /tɑʔ⁵³/
• Bla-Brang: /htak/
• Arik: /rtak/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*stak/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: da^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ta˥˨/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /tɑʔ⁵³/
  • (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /tɑʔ⁵³/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /htak/
  • (Arik) IPA^(key): /rtak/

Noun

སྟག • (stag)

1. tiger

Coordinate terms

Chinese earthly branches: སྲོག (srog)edit

• བྱི (byi)
• གླང (glang)
• སྟག (stag)
• ཡོས (yos)
• འབྲུག ('brug)
• སྦྲུལ (sbrul)
• རྟ (rta)
• ལུག (lug)
• སྤྲེལ (sprel)
• བྱ (bya)
• ཁྱི (khyi)
• ཕག (phag)

Derived terms

• སྟག་དཀར (stag dkar)
• སྟག་སྟན (stag stan)
• སྟག་སྟོད (stag stod)
• སྟག་ཐུལ (stag thul)
• སྟག་དོང (stag dong)
• སྟག་ལྡན (stag ldan)
• སྟག་སྡེ (stag sde)
• སྟག་ལྤགས (stag lpags)
• སྟག་ཕྲུག (stag phrug)
• སྟག་སྦྲང (stag sbrang)
• སྟག་མོ (stag mo)

Descendants

• → Wutunhua: dak

References

• “སྟག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “སྟག” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
• Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984), English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 444
• James A. Matisoff, John B. Lowe et al., editors (2015–present), The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus