སེང་གེ

Tibetan

Etymology

Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung [script needed] (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (OC *sri), Proto-Iranian *cárguš (whence Middle Persian ⁧𐫢𐫃𐫡⁩ (šgr /⁠šagr, šēr⁠/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”)), Sanskrit सिंह (siṃha), Tocharian A śiśäk, Tocharian B ṣecake and Chechen цӏокъ (cʼoqʼ), among other Caucasian cognates.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*seŋ.ɡe/
Lhasa: /seŋ˥˥.ke˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*seŋ.ɡe/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: seng^f-ge^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /seŋ˥˥.ke˥˥/

Noun

སེང་གེ • (seng ge)

lion
(astronomy) The constellation Leo

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