སྨན

See also: སྤྱན and སྤྲིན

Dzongkha

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /men˥/
(literary) IPA^(key): /mɛːn˥/

Noun

སྨན ('men)

medicine, drug, pharmaceutical
cure

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Chinese 萬 (“ritual dance”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zman/
Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥/

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

Noun

སྨན • (sman)

drug, medicine, medication
herb, remedy
she-demons worshipped by common folk

Derived terms

གློག་སྨན (glog sman, “battery”)
དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman, “deodorant”)
ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་ཡག་གི་སྨན (na zug 'jags yag gi sman, “painkiller”)
ན་ཟུག་འཇགས་སྨན (na zug 'jags sman, “painkiller”)
བཤལ་སྨན (bshal sman, “laxative”)
འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman, “insecticide”)
སྦི་ཅི་ལིའི་སྨན (sbi ci li'i sman, “battery”)
སྨན་ཁབ (sman khab, “hypodermic needle”)
སྨན་རས (sman ras, “bandage”)
གཉིད་སྨན (gnyid sman)
ཤུབས་སྨན (shubs sman)
སོ་སྨན (so sman)
སྨན་ཁང (sman khang)
སྨན་ཁྲོག (sman khrog)
སྨན་ཐུན (sman thun)
སྨན་ཐོ་ (sman tho)
སྨན་པ (sman pa)
སྨན་བཅོས (sman bcos)
སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang)
སྨན་རྫས (sman rdzas)
སྨན་ལེབ (sman leb)
སྨན་སྣ (sman sna)

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