Where does “ཞིང་པ” come from?

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

ཞིང་པ (Tibetan): farmer, peasant

Definitions

  1. farmer, peasant

Ancestry of “ཞིང་པ”, step by step

ཞིང་པ 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 པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞིང →