ཤིང་ཚ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) +‎ ཚ (tsha, “spicy, hot”)

Pronunciation

Noun

ཤིང་ཚ • (shing tsha)

  1. cinnamon
    1. specifically Indian cassia (Cinnamomum tamala)

Descendants

  • → Mongolian: шанц (šanc), шанцай (šancaj)

References

  • “ཤིང་ཚ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn (2001), The New English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1098
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