སྨན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

སྨན (sman, “medicine”) +‎ པ (pa, agent suffix).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zman.pa/
Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
Batang: /m̥ẽ˥˥ mba˥˧/
Dêgê: /m̥en˥˥ ba˥˧/
Zêkog: /ɣm̥an mba/
Bla-Brang: /hman pa/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zman.pa/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: maen^f-ba^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /m̥ẽ˥˥ mba˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /m̥en˥˥ ba˥˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ɣm̥an mba/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hman pa/

Noun

སྨན་པ • (sman pa)

doctor, physician
Synonyms: ཨེམ་ཆི (em chi), ལྷ་རྗེ (lha rje)

སྨན་པ་བསྟེན ― sman pa bsten ― to see a doctor

སྨན་པ་གྲགས་ཅན ― sman pa grags can ― renowned doctor

Derived terms

གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ (gshag gcod sman pa)
སྨན་པ་གྲྭ་ཚང (sman pa grwa tshang)
སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen)

Descendants

→ Mongghul: smanba

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