གླག
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la(ŋ/k) (“falcon, vulture, eagle, kite, hawk, bird of prey”), which is likely a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *laŋ ~ *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ (“large raptor”). Compare Mon လနေၚ် (“kite”), Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng, “kite”). (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).
Cognate to Jingpho gəlaŋ (“eagle, kite, hawk”), Jingpho lang (“bird of the falcon family”), Mianchi Southern Qiang là (“kite, hawk”) and Mianchi Southern Qiang lá (“eagle, vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”). Possibly connected to Chinese 鷹 (“eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).
Doublet of རྒོད (rgod).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*glak/
- Lhasa: /la(k̚)ˀ˥˩/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*glak/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lagh
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /la(k̚)ˀ˥˩/
Noun
གླག • (glag)
- eagle
- Pallas's fish eagle, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)
Related terms
- རྒོད (rgod)
Derived terms
- གླག་ཕྲུག (glag phrug)
- གླག་རོག (glag rog)