ས་ཡོམ

Tibetan

FWOTD – 6 August 2025
A building in Tingri County, of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, damaged by the 2025 Tibet earthquake.

Etymology

From ས (sa, “earth, soil”) +‎ ཡོམ (yom, “to quiver, shake, be unsteady”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ས་ཡོམ • (sa yom)

  1. earthquake
    Synonyms: ས་གཡོས (sa g.yos), ས་འགུལ (sa 'gul)

References

  • “ས་ཡོམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984), English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133
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