སྨན་ཁང

Dzongkha

Noun

སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)

hospital

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of སྨན (sman, “medicine”) +‎ ཁང (khang, “building”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zman.kʰaŋ/
Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥.kʰaŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zman.kʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: maen^f-kang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mɛ̃˥˥.kʰaŋ˥˥/

Noun

སྨན་ཁང • (sman khang)

hospital

Derived terms

སྨྱོན་པའི་སྨན་ཁང (smyon pa'i sman khang, “insane asylum”)

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