ཀུན་མཁྱེན

Sikkimese

Etymology

By surface analysis, ཀུན (kun, “all, everything”) +‎ མཁྱེན (mkhyen​, “to know”), literally “all-knowing”. Cognate with Tibetan ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen).

Adjective

ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)

  1. (chiefly Buddhism) all-knowing, omniscient

Proper noun

ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)

  1. (Buddhism) An epithet of the Buddha.

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 18

Tibetan

Etymology

From ཀུན (kun, “all, every, each”) +‎ མཁྱེན (mkhyen, “to know, comprehend, understand, cognise”).

Proper noun

ཀུན་མཁྱེན • (kun mkhyen)

  1. a male given name
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