ཉན

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Tibetan

Etymology

From Classical Tibetan མཉནད (mnyand, “to listen”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nyan (“to hear; to listen”). Cognate with Chinese 認 / 认 (rèn, “to recognize”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*ȵan/
Lhasa: /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
Batang: /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
Dêgê: /ȵen˩˧/
Zêkog: /ȵan/
Bla-Brang: /ȵan/
Arik: /ȵan/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*ȵan/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nyaen^v
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˨/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /ȵɛ̃˩˧/
- (Dêgê) IPA^(key): /ȵen˩˧/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ȵan/
- (Arik) IPA^(key): /ȵan/

Verb

ཉན • (nyan) (nominal form ཉན་པ)

(with dative) to listen
(with dative) to obey

Conjugation

Conjugation of ཉན (Classical Tibetan)

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	ཉན	nyan
Future	ཉན	nyan
Past	ཉནད	nyand
Imperative	ཉོནད	nyond

Derived terms

ཉན་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་ཆས (nyan byed 'phrul chas)

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