གླག

Tibetan

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la(ŋ/k) (“falcon, vulture, eagle, kite, hawk, bird of prey”), which is likely a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *laŋ ~ *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ (“large raptor”). Compare Mon လနေၚ် (“kite”), Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng, “kite”). (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

Cognate to Jingpho gəlaŋ (“eagle, kite, hawk”), lang (“bird of the falcon family”); Mianchi Southern Qiang là (“kite, hawk”) and lá (“eagle, vulture”), Burmese လင်းတ (lang:ta., “vulture”). Possibly connected to Chinese 鷹/鹰 (yīng, “eagle”) (Benedict, 1990; Schuessler, 2007).

Doublet of རྒོད (rgod).

Pronunciation


Noun

གླག • (glag)

  1. eagle
  2. Pallas's fish eagle, (Haliaeetus leucoryphus)

Derived terms

  • གླག་ཕྲུག (glag phrug)
  • གླག་རོག (glag rog)
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