རྒྱ་ནག

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱ (rgya, “extent, size; country, empire”) +‎ ནག (nag, “black”), literally "the black expanse; the black empire".

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.nak/
Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.na˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.nak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v-na^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨.na˥˨/

Proper noun

རྒྱ་ནག • (rgya nag)

China; in particular, regions populated by Han Chinese
Synonym: ཀྲུང་གོ (krung go)

References

“རྒྱ་ནག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.

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