ཀླུང

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”), borrowed from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ ~ *ruuŋ ~ *ruəŋ.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kluŋ/
Lhasa: /luŋ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kluŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lung^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /luŋ˥˨/

Noun

ཀླུང • (klung)

(see ཀླུང་མ) river, stream

See also

ཀླུང་མ (klung ma, “river”)
ལྗོངས (ljongs, “valley”)
ལུང་པ (lung pa, “valley”)

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