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Tibetan
Etymology
Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (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)
- lion
Proper noun
སེང་གེ • (seng ge)
- a male given name
- (astrology) Leo