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Where does “ཞིང་ཆེན” come from?

ཞིང་ཆེན (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan ཞིང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ — field; forest.

ཞིང་ཆེན (Tibetan): province

Definitions

  1. province

Ancestry of “ཞིང་ཆེན”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞིངfield, ground, farmland; region, country, sphere,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-liŋfield; forest

Words derived from “ཞིང་ཆེན”

  • ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན
  • སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན
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