སེང་གེ

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Tibetan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), (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.

Pronunciation


Noun

སེང་གེ (seng ge)

  1. lion

Proper noun

སེང་གེ (seng ge)

  1. a male given name
  2. (astrology) Leo