ཉལ

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Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”). Compare Chinese 瞑 (OC *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ, “to close the eyes”), 臥 (OC *ŋʷaːls, “to lie down”), 妥 (OC *n̥ʰoːlʔ, “peaceful; to stop”), 綏 (OC *snul, “to pacify, comfort; tranquil”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Verb

ཉལ • (nyal) (nominal form ཉལ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to lie down, to recline
  2. (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

Derived 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

References

  • “ཉལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • “ཉལ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.
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