ངག

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Old Chinese 語 (OC *ŋaʔ)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ŋak/
Lhasa: /ŋa˩˧˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ŋak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nga^w
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋa˩˧˨/

Noun

ངག • (ngag)

speech, voice

Derived terms

སྙན་ངག (snyan ngag, “poem”)

Related terms

དངགས (dngags) in སྙན་དངགས (snyan dngags, “poetry”)
མངག (mngag, “to commission, to charge, to delegate”)
སྔག (sngag, “to praise, to commend, to extol”)
སྔགས (sngags, “spell, mantra”)

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