སྐྱོན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

སྐྱོན (skyon)

  1. defect, fault

Verb

སྐྱོན (skyon)

  1. To collect.
  2. To make a mistake, to err.

Derived terms

  • སྐྱོན་ཅན (skyon can, “faulty, defective; guilty”)
  • སྐྱོན་བརྗོད (skyon brjod, “criticism, slander”)
  • སྐྱོན་བསེལ (skyon bsel, “to atone, to amend, to fix”)
  • གཏོར་སྐྱོན (gtor skyon, “to damage, to ruin”)

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 24

Tibetan

Noun

སྐྱོན • (skyon)

  1. injury

Derived terms

  • བརྡབས་སྐྱོན (brdabs skyon)
  • རྨས་སྐྱོན (rmas skyon)
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