ངང་པོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-n. Compare Tibetan ངང་པ (ngang pa, “goose, wild goose”), Cantonese 雁 (ngaan6, “wild goose”) and Burmese ငန်း (ngan:, “goose, swan”).

Noun

ངང་པོ (ngang po)

  1. duck

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 45
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