ཉལ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-njal ~ s-njal (to sleep, to lie down; sleepy). Compare Chinese (OC *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ, “to close the eyes”), (OC *ŋʷaːls, “to lie down”), (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “peaceful; to stop”), (OC *snul, “to pacify, comfort; tranquil”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation


Verb

ཉལ • (nyal) (nominal form ཉལ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to lie down, to recline
  2. (intransitive) to sleep, to go to sleep

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • ཉལ་པོ (nyal po, coition)
  • མཉལ (mnyal, (dialectal) same as ngal; to rest, fatigued)
  • མཉལད (mnyald, (archaic) to fall ill, to become sick)
  • སྙལ (snyal, to lay something down, to bed a person, to assign person a couch)
  • གཉིད (gnyid, sleep)
  • མཉེལ (mnyel, to be fatigued, tired)
  • ཉེལ (nyel, to be ill, to become sick)
  • རྣལ (rnal, rest, transquility; basic state, fundamental condition)
  • མནལ (mnal, sleep)
  • ངལ (ngal, to rest; fatigued)
  • མངལ (mngal, womb, uterus)

See also

  • རྨི (rmi, to dream)
  • རྨང་ལམ (rmang lam, dream)

References

  • ཉལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • ཉལ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
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