Where does “སྨན་པ” come from?

སྨན་པ (Tibetan) comes from Tibetan སྨན, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-maŋ.

སྨན་པ (Tibetan): doctor, physician

Definitions

  1. doctor, physician

Ancestry of “སྨན་པ”, step by step

སྨན་པ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan སྨན

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanསྨནdrug, medicine, medication; herb, remedy;...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-maŋ—

via Tibetan པ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཔa nominalization suffix

Words derived from “སྨན་པ”

Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-maŋ →Every word from Tibetan སྨན →