རྫོང

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Dzongkha

གླིང་བཞིཡུལརྒྱལ་རྫོང།
'Lingzhi ü-gä dzong.

Pronunciation

Noun

རྫོང (rdzong)

  1. jong (a Tibetan or Bhutanese fortress)
  2. province, district

Derived terms

Tibetan

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (to build) (STEDT). Possibly cognate with Chinese (zōng, ancestral temple; school; sect; purpose).”

Pronunciation


Noun

རྫོང (rdzong)

  1. castle, fortress, jong, fort, district capital
  2. district, province, county
    རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང
    rgyal rtse rdzong
    Gyantse County

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Verb

རྫོང (rdzong) (nominal form རྫོང་བ)

  1. (transitive) to send, to dispatch, to send off
  2. (transitive) to expel, to banish
  3. (transitive) to put stuff into, to insert
Conjugation