ལྗོངས

See also: ལིངས

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river; gorge”). Related to ཀླུང (klung, “river, stream, valley”), ལུང་པ (lung pa, “valley, district, homeland”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ld͡ʑoŋs/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕoŋ˩˧˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ld͡ʑoŋs/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: jong^w
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕoŋ˩˧˨/

Noun

ལྗོངས • (ljongs)

1. large valley, principal or main valley
2. district, province, region, country

Derived terms

• ལྗོངས་རྒྱུ (ljongs rgyu)
• བོད་ལྗོངས (bod ljongs)
• འབྲས་ལྗོངས ('bras ljongs)
• འབྲས་མོ་ལྗོངས ('bras mo ljongs)
• རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས (rang skyong ljongs)