བཙན་པོ

See also: བཙོན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

བཙན (btsan, “severe, strong, powerful”) +‎ པོ (po, “masculine agent suffix”). Related to བཙན་པ (btsan pa, “strict, powerful; power, force; king”), བརྩན (brtsan, “demon; secure, strong, mighty; king; power”), བཙན (btsan, “tsan spirit; ghost of hunting; secure, mighty; king; power, force”); ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-tsan (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*pt͡san.po/
Lhasa: /t͡sɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*pt͡san.po/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zaen^f-bo^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Adjective

བཙན་པོ • (btsan po)

Noun

བཙན་པོ • (btsan po)

king; title for Tibetan emperors

Descendants

→ Middle Chinese: 贊普 (/*t͡sɑn^H pʰuo^X/)
- Mandarin: 贊普／赞普 (zànpǔ)

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