སྔ

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋa (“before; front”). Related to སྔོན (sngon).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zŋa/
Lhasa: /ŋa˥˥/
Batang: /ŋ̊a˥˧/
Dêgê: /ŋ̊a˥˧/
Bla-Brang: /hŋa/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zŋa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: nga^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ŋa˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ŋ̊a˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ŋ̊a˥˧/
Amdo
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hŋa/

Adjective

སྔ • (snga)

(usually in compounds) early, before, soon
Antonym: ཕྱི (phyi)

Verb

སྔ • (snga) (nominal form སྔ་བ)

(intransitive) to be the first, to come first, to be beforehand

Conjugation

Conjugation of སྔ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	སྔ	snga
Future	སྔ	snga
Past	སྔས སྔ	sngas snga

Derived terms

སྔ་དྲོ (snga dro)
སྔ་པ (snga pa)
སྔ་པོ (snga po)
སྔ་ཕྱི (snga phyi)
སྔ་བ (snga ba)
སྔ་མ (snga ma)
སྔ་མོ (snga mo)
སྔ་ལོ (snga lo)
སྔ་སྨིན (snga smin)

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