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 པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Tibetan རིག →Every word from Tibetan ཚན་རིག →