སྟག

→ Wutunhua: dag

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *stak (“tiger”).


སེང

Abbreviation of སེང་གེ (seng ge, “lion”), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”).


སྤྲེལ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-pra. Cognate with Kurtöp པྲ (pra), Dzongkha སྤྱ (spya).


བྱ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b(j/r)a (“bird”).


ཁྱི

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Cognate with Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ).


མཛོ་ཕོ

a kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and milk.


ཕོ

stomach, reticulum, second stomach of ruminant


གཡག

→ Armenian: յակ (yak)

→ Catalan: iac

→ Czech: jak

→ Danish: yak

→ Dutch: jak

→ English: yak

→ Faroese: jakkoksi

→ Finnish: jakki

→ French: yack, yak

→ Georgian: იაკი (iaḳi)

→ German: Yak, Jak

→ Hebrew: יאק (yak)

→ Hungarian: jak

→ Icelandic: jakuxi

→ Ido: yako

→ Interlingua: yak

→ Italian: yak m

→ Japanese: ヤク (yaku)

→ Macedonian: јак (jak)

→ Marathi: याक (yāk)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: jak

→ Polish: jak m

→ Portuguese: iaque

→ Romanian: iac m

→ Russian: як (jak)

→ Slovak: jak

→ Slovene: jak

→ Spanish: yac, yak

→ Swedish: jak

→ Turkish: yak

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ (“sheep, yak”).


འབྲོང

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“wild yak, buffalo”).


སྤྲེའུ

སྤྲེལ (sprel, “monkey”) + ེའུ (e'au, diminutive suffix).


སྦལ་པ

→ Wutunhua: bbawa


རྨང

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-m-raŋ ~ s-raŋ.


སེངྒེ

Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung [script needed] (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (OC *sri), Proto-Iranian *cárguš (whence Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”)), Sanskrit सिंह (siṃha), Tocharian A śiśäk, Tocharian B ṣecake and Chechen цӏокъ (cʼoqʼ), among other Caucasian cognates.


བ

The fifteenth letter of the Tibetan alphabet


གླང་ཆེན

/laŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/


མཛོ

English: dzo


ཀ་ཀ

ka ka (romanization)
ཀ་ཀ (absolutive)
ཀ་ཀའི (genitive)
ཀ་ཀས (agentive)
ཀ་ཀ་ལ (dative)
ཀ་ཀ་ན (locative)
ཀ་ཀར (terminative)
ཀ་ཀ་ལས (ablative)
ཀ་ཀ་ནས (elative)
ཀ་ཀ་དང (associative)
ཀ་ཀ་བས (comparative)


ཞི་མི

Cognate with ཞིམ་བུ (zhim bu) and ཞུམ་བུ (zhum bu), all possibly from earlier *ryi-mi. If true, then perhaps of Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Old Chinese 狸 (OC *rɯ) (see there for further etymology).


བྱ་རྒོད

/t͡ɕʰa˩˨.køː˩˧˨/


བ་ཕྱུགས

/pʰa˩˨.t͡ɕʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˨/


གླ་བ

གླ (gla) + བ (ba). Compare Lepcha ᰠᰓᰪᰲ (sabur, “musk deer”), Nuosu ꇍꀮ (lep bu).


སྐུ་བདེ་རིགས

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སྐུ་བདེ་རིགས • (sku bde rigs)

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠦᠳᠡᠷᠢ (küderi, “musk deer”), adapted in Middle Tibetan to mean something akin to "kind of healthy body".


རྨ་བྱ

The first element is from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra, “peacock”), compounded to native བྱ (bya, “bird”).


འབྲི

'bri (romanization)
form འབྲི་བ (nominal)
འབྲི (present)
འདྲི (present)
བྲི (present)
'bri (present romanization)
'dri (present romanization)
bri (present romanization)
བྲི (future)
འབྲི (future)
bri (future romanization)
'bri (future romanization)
བྲིས (past)
bris (past romanization)
བྲིས (imperative)
ཕྲིས (imperative)
རིས (imperative)
bris (imperative romanization)
phris (imperative romanization)
ris (imperative romanization)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-rəj (“to draw, to mark”). Related to རི་མོ (ri mo, “drawing”).

inh

(transitive) to write, to draw, to note down


རྐྱང

→ English: kiang


དོམ་ཁྲ

From དོམ (dom, “bear”) + ཁྲ (khra, “many-coloured; variegated; mottled; striped”).


ཝ་མོ

ཝ (wa) + མོ (mo), the former from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gwa (“fox”), cognate with Chinese 狐 (OC *ɡʷaː).


སྤྱང་ཀི

/t͡ɕəŋ˥˥.ku˥˥/


གསའ

གཟིག གཟིག#Tibetan


བྱི་ལ

From an Indo-Aryan source; compare Hindi बिल्ला (billā). Schuessler (2007) additionally proposes that element byi may be native Sino-Tibetan origin and cognate with Old Chinese 貔 (OC *bi).


ཕོ་ཕག

From ཕོ (pho, “male”) + ཕག (phag, “pig”).


གླ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s/ɡ-la (“flesh, meat, deer”). Compare Chinese 麝 (OC *ɢljaːɡs, *ɢljaːɡ), Lepcha ᰠᰓᰪᰲ (sabur, “musk deer”), Tangut 𗰆 (*lhja¹, “deer”), Nuosu ꇍꀮ (lep bu).


རྒོད

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 /鹰 (yīng, “eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).
Doublet of གླག (glag).


གླག

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”), lang (“bird of the falcon family”); Mianchi Southern Qiang là (“kite, hawk”) and lá (“eagle, vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”). Possibly connected to Chinese 鷹 /鹰 (yīng, “eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).
Doublet of རྒོད (rgod).

Haliaeetus leucoryphus
Haliaeetus leucoryphus#Translingual

Pallas's fish eagle, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)


ཀུམ་བི་ར

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ཀུམ་བི་ར • (kum bi ra)


དབྱི

Schuessler (2007) compares this to Old Chinese 貔 (OC *bi, “panther-like felid”) and proposes probable Sino-Tibetan origin for both.


གླ་རྩི

གླ (gla, “musk deer”) + རྩི (rtsi, “essence, extract”). Compare Kurtöp ལར་ཙེ (lar tse).

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གླ་རྩི་དབྱུགས་ནས་གླ་ལྤགས་ཉར་
gla rtsi dbyugs nas gla lpags nyar
lack of good judgment
(literally, “to discard the musk but keep the deerskin”)