བྱེ་ཐང

Tibetan

Etymology

བྱེ (bye, “sand”) +‎ ཐང (thang, “plain, flatlands”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲe.tʰaŋ/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰe˩˨ tʰaŋ˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲe.tʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qe^v tang^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰe˩˨ tʰaŋ˥˥/

Noun

བྱེ་ཐང • (bye thang)

1. desert

References

• Yu, Daoquan (于道泉), chief editor, Fu, Jiazhang (傅家璋), editor (1983) 藏汉对照拉萨口语词典 (in Chinese), Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House, page 656