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˩˧˨/

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

Noun

ལྗོངས • (ljongs)

large valley, principal or main valley
district, province, region, country

Derived terms

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

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