ཐང

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Old Chinese 敞 (*tʰjaŋʔ, “open; spacious”) (Coblin, 1986).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tʰaŋ/
Lhasa: /tʰaŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཐང • (thang)

plain, plains, flatland

References

Charles Alfred Bell's English–Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 364.

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