གཙང

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clean; pure; clear”). Cognate with Chinese 清、淨.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kt͡saŋ/
Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kt͡saŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Adjective

གཙང • (gtsang)

clean, pure; See གཙང་བ (gtsang ba).
Antonym: བཙོག (btsog)

Derived terms

གཙང་དག (gtsang dag)
གཙང་དུས (gtsang dus)
གཙང་བ (gtsang ba)
གཙང་བཙོག (gtsang btsog)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kt͡saŋ/
Lhasa: /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kt͡saŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡saŋ˥˥/

Proper noun

གཙང • (gtsang)

Name of a historical province of Central Tibet.
The southwestern part of Central Tibet, representing the area of the former province.

Derived terms

དབུས་གཙང (dbus gtsang)
གཙང་སྐད (gtsang skad)
གཙང་པ (gtsang pa)
གཙང་སྦྲ (gtsang sbra)
གཙང་མ (gtsang ma)

Descendants

→ Chinese: 藏 (Zàng)
→ Wutunhua: zang

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