Where does “དཔག་བསམ་གྱི་ཤིང” come from?
དཔག་བསམ་གྱི་ཤིང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཤིང, from Sanskrit हिङ्गु, from Proto-Iranian Hángwr̥, from Proto-Iranian Hanguǰatu, from Proto-Iranian Hangwr̥ — extract, resin; resin.
དཔག་བསམ་གྱི་ཤིང (Tibetan): wish-fulfilling tree
Definitions
- wish-fulfilling tree
Ancestry of “དཔག་བསམ་གྱི་ཤིང”, step by step
དཔག་བསམ་གྱི་ཤིང traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཤིང
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཤིང | tree, wood |
| 2 | Sanskrit | हिङ्गु | asafoetida; a kind of liquid made from the roots... |
| 3 | Proto-Iranian | Hángwr̥ | extract, resin |
| 4 | Proto-Iranian | Hanguǰatu | asafoetida |
| 5 | Proto-Iranian | Hangwr̥ | extract, resin; resin |
via Tibetan དཔག་བསམ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | དཔག་བསམ | — |