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

ཞིང་ཆེན traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ཞིང

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

via Tibetan ཆེན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanཆེནSee ཆེན་པོ and ཆེན་མོ

Words derived from “ཞིང་ཆེན”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞིང →