Where does “ཚན་རིག་པ” come from?

ཚན་རིག་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཚན་རིག, from Tibetan རིག — to know, to understand.

ཚན་རིག་པ (Tibetan): scientist

Definitions

  1. scientist

Ancestry of “ཚན་རིག་པ”, step by step

ཚན་རིག་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཚན་རིག

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚན་རིག(modern) science
2Tibetanརིགto know, to understand

via Tibetan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetana nominalization suffix
Every word from Tibetan རིགEvery word from Tibetan ཚན་རིག