སྨན་པ
Tibetan
Etymology
སྨན (sman, “medicine”) + པ (pa, agent suffix).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*zman.pa/
- Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
- Batang: /m̥ẽ˥˥ mba˥˧/
- Dêgê: /m̥en˥˥ ba˥˧/
- Zêkog: /ɣm̥an mba/
- Bla-Brang: /hman pa/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*zman.pa/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: maenf-baf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/
- Khams
- (Batang) IPA(key): /m̥ẽ˥˥ mba˥˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA(key): /m̥en˥˥ ba˥˧/
- Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA(key): /ɣm̥an mba/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA(key): /hman pa/
Noun
སྨན་པ • (sman pa)
- doctor, physician
- Synonyms: ཨེམ་ཆི (em chi), ལྷ་རྗེ (lha rje)
- སྨན་པ་བསྟེན ― sman pa bsten ― to see a doctor
- སྨན་པ་གྲགས་ཅན ― sman pa grags can ― renowned doctor
Derived terms
- གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ (gshag gcod sman pa)
- སྨན་པ་གྲྭ་ཚང (sman pa grwa tshang)
- སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen)
Descendants
- → Mongghul: smanba