སྨན

See also: སྤྱན and སྤྲིན

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Chinese 萬 (“ritual dance”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zman/
Lhasa: /mɛ̃˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zman/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan Pinyin: maen^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /mɛ̃˥˥/

Noun

སྨན • (sman)

drug, medicine, medication
herb, remedy
she-demons worshipped by common folk

Derived terms

Terms derived from སྨན (sman)

གཉིད་སྨན (gnyid sman)
དྲི་ངན་སངས་སྨན (dri ngan sangs sman, “deodorant”)
བཤལ་སྨན (bshal sman, “laxative”)
འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman, “insecticide”)
ཤུབས་སྨན (shubs sman)
སོ་སྨན (so sman)

སྨན་ཚོང་ཁང (sman tshong khang)
སྨན་རས (sman ras, “bandage”)
སྨན་རྫས (sman rdzas)
སྨན་ལེབ (sman leb)
སྨན་སྣ (sman sna)

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