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: /ca˩˧.na˥˩/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.nak/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: gya^v-na^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ca˩˧.na˥˩/

Proper noun

རྒྱ་ནག • (rgya nag)

China; in particular, regions populated by Han Chinese

Synonyms

ཀྲུང་གོ (krung go)

See also

རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar), རྒྱ་དཀར (rgya dkar, “India, 'white empire'”)

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