Where does “སྣུམ་རླུང” come from?

སྣུམ་རླུང (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan རླུང — wind, air; oral transmission.

སྣུམ་རླུང (Tibetan): natural gas

Definitions

  1. natural gas

Ancestry of “སྣུམ་རླུང”, step by step

སྣུམ་རླུང traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan རླུང

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརླུངwind, air; oral transmission

via Tibetan སྣུམ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྣུམoil, grease
Every word from Tibetan རླུང
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