སྔོན་པོ

Ladakhi

Adjective

སྔོན་པོ (sngon po)

  1. blue and the green of some plants

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋow (“white; green; yellow; blue”). Related to སྔོ (sngo, “green; blue; vegetables; plant”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

སྔོན་པོ • (sngon po)

  1. blue

Usage notes

This word is used to describe a different range of hues than English blue; it can cover the green of plants, but not the blue of the sea.

See also

Colors in Tibetan · ཚོས་གཞི (tshos gzhi), ཚོན་མདོག (tshon mdog) (layout · text)
     དཀར་པོ (dkar po)      [Term?]      ནག་པོ (nag po)
             དམར་པོ (dmar po); [Term?]              དམར་སེར (dmar ser); [Term?]              སེར་པོ (ser po); [Term?]
             [Term?]              ལྗང་ཁུ (ljang khu)              [Term?]; [Term?]
             [Term?]; [Term?]              [Term?]              [Term?]
             [Term?]; [Term?]              [Term?]; [Term?]              [Term?]

References

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