ཆུང་ཆུང

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Adjective

ཆུང་ཆུང (chung chung)

  1. small, tiny
  2. young

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 57

Tibetan

Etymology

A reduplication of ཆུང (chung).

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*t͡ɕʰuŋ.t͡ɕʰuŋ/
  • Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥.t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥/, /t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥/
  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA(key): /*t͡ɕʰuŋ.t͡ɕʰuŋ/ (reconstructed)
  • Ü-Tsang
    • Tibetan pinyin: quenf-quenf, qungf-qungf
    • (Lhasa) IPA(key): /t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥.t͡ɕʰỹ˥˥/, /t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰuŋ˥˥/

Adjective

ཆུང་ཆུང • (chung chung)

  1. small, tiny

Antonyms

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