ཉལ
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”). Compare Chinese 瞑 (OC *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ, “to close the eyes”), 臥 (OC *ŋʷaːls, “to lie down”), 妥 (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “peaceful; to stop”), 綏 (OC *snul, “to pacify, comfort; tranquil”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
Verb
ཉལ • (nyal) (nominal form ཉལ་བ)
- (intransitive) to lie down, to recline
- (intransitive) to sleep, to go to sleep
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཉལ (Classical Tibetan)
Synonyms
- གཟིམ (gzim, “to sleep, to fall asleep”)
Derived terms
Related 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”)
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