ཚན་རིག
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Tibetan
Etymology
From ཚན (tshan, “part, item”) + རིག (rig, “to know, knowledge”), possibly a calque of Chinese 科學／科学 (kēxué, “science ”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ཚན་རིག • (tshan rig)
- (modern) science
- ཚན་རིག་བརྟག་དཔྱད་ཁང ― tshan rig brtag dpyad khang ― scientific research institute
- ཚན་རིག་ཚོད་ལྟ ― tshan rig tshod lta ― scientific experiment
- ཚན་རིག་ལག་རྩལ ― tshan rig lag rtsal ― science and technology
Derived terms
- ཚན་རིག་པ (tshan rig pa)
- ཚན་རིག་མཁས་པ (tshan rig mkhas pa, “scientist”)
See also
- རིག་གནས (rig gnas)