སྦྱིན

See also: སྟོན་པ and སྤྲིན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bəj-n/k (“to give”). Cognate with Chinese 畀 (OC *pids, “to give”), 賓 (OC *mpin, “gift; to present a gift”), and Burmese ပေး (pe:).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zbʲin/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕĩ˩˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zbʲin/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: jin^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕĩ˩˨/

Verb

སྦྱིན • (sbyin) (nominal form སྦྱིན་པ)

(transitive) to give, to bestow, to contribute, to offer, to make a present of
(transitive) to add, to supplement, to sum up
(transitive) to feed, to give to eat

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྦྱིན

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྦྱིན	sbyin
Future	སྦྱིན	sbyin
Past	བྱིན སྦྱིན (archaic) བྱིནད	byin sbyin byind
Imperative	བྱིན སྦྱིན (archaic) བྱིནད	byin sbyin byind

Derived terms

སྦྱིན་བདག (sbyin bdag, “almsgiver”)

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