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
- scientist
Ancestry of “ཚན་རིག་པ”, step by step
ཚན་རིག་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tibetan ཚན་རིག
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | ཚན་རིག | (modern) science |
| 2 | Tibetan | རིག | to know, to understand |
via Tibetan པ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tibetan | པ | a nominalization suffix |