བཏང

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Verb

བཏང (btang)

1. To send, especially to send a letter.

Derived terms

• བཏང་སྙོམས (btang snyoms)
• བཏང་ཡིག (btang yig)

References

• Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྷོ་དབྱིན་ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 67

Tibetan

Verb

བཏང • (btang) (nominal form བཏང་བ)

1. to drive (a vehicle), to fly (a plane)
2. future of གཏོང (gtong)

Derived terms

• གཉའ་གནོན་བཏང (gnya' gnon btang, “to oppress”)
• གཏུག་དྲི་བཏང (gtug dri btang, “to fart”)
• གཞས་བཏང (gzhas btang, “to sing”)
• ཚ་ལ་བཏང (tsha la btang, “to solder”)