གངས་ཆེན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

གངས་ཆེན (gangs chen)

  1. (geography) mountain

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 34

Tibetan

Etymology

གངས (gangs, “snow”) +‎ ཆེན (chen, “great”).

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA(key): /*ɡaŋs.t͡ɕʰen/ (reconstructed)

Noun

གངས་ཆེན • (gangs chen)

  1. glacier

See also

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