ཐང

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɐ́ŋ]

Etymology 1

Related to Dzongkha ཐང (thang) and Tibetan ཐང (thang).

Noun

ཐང (thang)

plains, flatland

Etymology 2

Related to Dzongkha འཐེན ('then) and Tibetan འཐེན ('then).

Verb

ཐང (thang)

(transitive) to pull
ཇུ་ཐང ― ju thang ― to milk (literally, “to pull milk”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཐང (thang)
		affirmative	negative I	negative II
unmarked		ཐང (thang)	མ́་ཐང ('mathang)	མེ́་ཐང ('methang)
prospective		ཐང་ཀི་ན (thangkina)	མ́་ཐང་ཀི་ན ('mathangkina)	མེ́་ཐང་ཀི་ན ('methangkina)
perfective	I	ཐང་ཝ་ར (thangwara)	མ́་ཐང་ཝ་ར ('mathangwara)	མེ́་ཐང་ཝ་ར ('methangwara)
	II	ཐང་མུ (thangmu)	—	—
	III	ཐང་ན (thangna)	མ́་ཐང་ན ('mathangna)	མེ́་ཐང་ན ('methangna)
	IV	ཐང་ཤང (thangshang)	མ́་ཐང་ཤང ('mathangshang)	མེ́་ཐང་ཤང ('methangshang)
	V	ཐང་ཝ་ལ (thangwala)	མ́་ཐང་ཝ་ལ ('mathangwala)	མེ́་ཐང་ཝ་ལ ('methangwala)
	mirative	ཐང་ན (thangna)	མ́་ཐང་ན ('mathangna)	མེ́་ཐང་ན ('methangna)
imperfective	egophoric	ཐང་ཏ་ཀི (thangtaki)	མ́་ཐང་ཏ་ཀི ('mathangtaki)	མེ́་ཐང་ཏ་ཀི ('methangtaki)
imperfective	non-egophoric	ཐང་ཏ (thangta)	མ́་ཐང་ཏ ('mathangta)	མེ́་ཐང་ཏ ('methangta)
infinitive		ཐ་ངོ (thango)

References

G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 87

Tibetan

Etymology

Compare Old Chinese 敞 (*tʰjaŋʔ, “open; spacious”) (Coblin, 1986), from which Proto-Sino-Tibetan *taŋ (“open, spacious”) is reconstructible.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*tʰaŋ/
Lhasa: /tʰaŋ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*tʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: tang^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰaŋ˥˥/

Noun

ཐང • (thang)

plain, plains, flatland

Derived terms

དཀྱིལ་ཐང (dkyil thang)
ཐང་པ (thang pa, “plain-dweller”)
ཐང་ཚྭ (thang tshwa, “quarried salt”)
གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང (gnam gru thang, “airport”)
བྱེ་ཐང (bye thang, “desert”)

References

“ཐང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“ཐང” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
Charles Alfred Bell's English–Tibetan Colloquial Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 364.