མཁྱེན

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ken.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*mkʰʲen/
• Lhasa: /cʰẽ˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*mkʰʲen/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: kyen^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cʰẽ˥˨/

Verb

མཁྱེན • (mkhyen) (nominal form མཁྱེན་པ)

1. (honorific, transitive or intransitive) to know, to comprehend, to understand, to cognise

Conjugation

Classical Tibetan

present	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
future	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
past	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
imperative	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)

Old Tibetan

present	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)
future	མཁྱེན (mkhyen)
past	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)
imperative	མཁྱེནད (mkhyend)

Derived terms

• ཀུན་མཁྱེན (kun mkhyen)

References

• “མཁྱེན” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.