མཁྱེན

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken.

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mkʰʲen/
Lhasa: /cʰẽ˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mkʰʲen/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: kyen^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰẽ˥˨/

Verb

མཁྱེན • (mkhyen) (nominal form མཁྱེན་པ)

(honorific, transitive or intransitive) to know, to comprehend, to understand, to cognise

Conjugation

Conjugation of **མཁྱེན** (mkhyen) (Classical Tibetan)
present	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
future	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
past	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
imperative	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)

Conjugation of **མཁྱེན** (mkhyen) (Old Tibetan)
present	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)
future	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
past	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)
imperative	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)

Derived terms

ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)

References

“མཁྱེན” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.