ཏིང

Dzongkha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiŋ˥/

Noun

ཏིང (ting)

  1. bowl or vessel for offerings

Sikkimese

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/ʔ)-di(k/ŋ) (“pot, cauldron”). Compare Chinese 鼎 (dǐng).

Noun

ཏིང (ting)

  1. (Buddhism) A cup made of certain metals (such as silver, bell metal, brass or copper) used for offering water to deities during worship.

Etymology 2

Likely onomatopoeic. Compare English ding. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཏིང (ting)

  1. (onomatopoeia) ding (The sound of metal.)
Derived terms

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 65

Zhang-Zhung

Alternative forms

Noun

ཏིང (ting)

  1. water

References

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