ཉལ
Tibetan
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*ȵal/
- Lhasa: /ȵɛː˩˧/
- Batang: /ȵɛ˨˧˩/
- Dêgê: /ȵe˩˧/
- Zêkog: /ȵa/
- Bla-Brang: /ȵal/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*ȵal/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyaev
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ȵɛː˩˧/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /ȵɛ˨˧˩/
- (Dêgê) IPA(key): /ȵe˩˧/
- Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA(key): /ȵa/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /ȵal/
Verb
ཉལ • (nyal) (nominal form ཉལ་བ)
- (intransitive) to lie down, to recline
- (intransitive) to sleep, to go to sleep
Conjugation
Conjugation of ཉལ (Classical Tibetan)
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | ཉལ | nyal |
Future | ཉལ | nyal |
Past | ཉལ | nyal |
Imperative | ཉོལ | nyol |
Conjugation of ཉལ (Old Tibetan)
Tense/Mood | Form | Wylie |
---|---|---|
Present | ཉལ | nyal |
Future | ཉལ | nyal |
Past | ཉལད | nyald |
Imperative | ཉོལད | nyold |
Synonyms
- གཟིམ (gzim, “to sleep, to fall asleep”)
Derived terms
- ཉལ་ཁྲི (nyal khri, “bed”)
- ཉལ་ཁེབས (nyal khebs, “bedspread”)
- ཉལ་གདན (nyal gdan, “mattress”)
- ཉལ་གཟན (nyal gzan, “blanket”)
- ཉལ་ཆས (nyal chas, “bedding”)
- ཉལ་རས (nyal ras, “sheet”)
Related terms
- ཉལ་པོ (nyal po, “coition”)
- མཉལ (mnyal, “(dialectal) same as ngal; to rest, fatigued”)
- མཉལད (mnyald, “(archaic) to fall ill, to become sick”)
- སྙལ (snyal, “to lay something down, to bed a person, to assign person a couch”)
- གཉིད (gnyid, “sleep”)
- མཉེལ (mnyel, “to be fatigued, tired”)
- ཉེལ (nyel, “to be ill, to become sick”)
- རྣལ (rnal, “rest, transquility; basic state, fundamental condition”)
- མནལ (mnal, “sleep”)
- ངལ (ngal, “to rest; fatigued”)
- མངལ (mngal, “womb, uterus”)
See also
- རྨི (rmi, “to dream”)
- རྨང་ལམ (rmang lam, “dream”)