Language/Tibetan/Vocabulary/Health
Hi Tibetan learners! 😊
In this lesson, we will focus on the vocabulary related to health in the Tibetan language. Learning how to express common health concerns, symptoms, and actions is essential when traveling to Tibet or when communicating with Tibetan speakers in a medical context. Let's get started!
Don't hesitate to look into these other pages after completing this lesson: Express Surprise & How to say Good Bye?.
Basic Health Vocabulary[edit | edit source]
Let's start with some basic vocabulary words and phrases you can use to describe common health issues and symptoms:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| དཔྱད་ཀྱི་བོད་ལེགས་ | pé-chi bök-lek | Medical treatment |
| ཕོགས་པ་སྐུགས་བཞུགས་ | pö-kap ku-shyüg-shyüg | Aches and pains |
| འཤོར་ཕུངས་ཐུགས་རྩིས་ | shor-pung tüg-tsí | Headache |
| འཕྲིན་ལས་གློག་བར་སྤྱོད་པ་ | trin-lé log-par chö-pa | Blood pressure |
| འཇུག་པ་ཕོ་བྲང་དང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བཞུགས་པ་ | juk-pa po-drang dang-katr-shi shyüg-pa | Cough and cold |
| མེ་ལོང་དུ་འདུས་མེ་ལོང་ | me-long du-dü me-long | Insomnia |
To use these words in a dialogue:
- Person 1: འཤོར་ཕུངས་ཐུགས་རྩིས་ གཉིས་པ་བཟུང་ཟིན་པའི་ལས་བཞིན་ལས་ནམ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་བགྲོས་པའི་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་བཟུང་ཟིན་པ་ (I have a terrible headache and I can't handle the pain anymore.)
- Person 2: འཇུག་པ་ཕོ་བྲང་དང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་པ་ མེ་འཛུམ་གོང་རྒྱམ་རེད་མུན་ནུག (I have a cough and a runny nose all day long.)
Common Illnesses[edit | edit source]
Now let's learn some common illnesses and their corresponding translations in Tibetan:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ཕྱི་ལོ་གདམས་ | chi-lo dtam | Influenza |
| གནས་བཙོ་ | nen-tso | Diabetes |
| འཚལ་ཉིད་ | tsäl-nyi | Depression |
| ཀམ་བོད་ | kam-bö | Cancer |
| རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ | ten-drel | Pneumonia |
To use these words in context:
- Person 1: ཁྱེད་རང་ལས་ ཕྱི་ལོ་གདམས་ཐུགས་རྩིས་དང་འཚལ་ཉིད་རེད། (My mother has the flu and depression.)
- Person 2: རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གཞི་བཏོན་དགོས་གློག་ནས་ གནས་བཙོ་ཐུགས་རྩིས་རེད། (I heard that diabetes is a serious illness that affects many people who have pneumonia.)
Actions and Remedies[edit | edit source]
Now that we've gone over some basic illness-related vocabulary, let's look at some common actions and remedies you can take when dealing with health issues:
| Tibetan | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| བས་འབུམ་བརྩེགས་པ་ | sa-bum tsék-pa | Get vaccinated |
| འདེམས་པའི་ལས་བཞིན་པ་ | de-me-pé la-shyin-pa | Take medicine |
| བརྩེད་ཟིན་བཅད་པ་ | tsék-zin ché-pa | Visit a doctor |
| ནམ་དུ་ཡོད་པས་སྲུང་བཞུགས་པ་ | nam-du yod-pa srung-shyüg-pa | Practice good hygiene |
| མཱ་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་བོད་ཁུངས་པ་ | ma-shukyi bök-hung-pa | Drink plenty of water |
To use these words in context:
- Person 1: ང་ན་གང་ཡང་ བས་འབུམ་བརྩེགས་པ་ བྱེད་སྒྲུབ་མི་འདུག (I'm going to get vaccinated before I go on this trip.)
- Person 2: དེ་མདུན་དང་ བརྩེད་ཟིན་བཅད་པ་ དགོས་གློག་ནས་ཆོག་གློག་པ་ (My daughter is ill and I need to take her to the doctor as soon as possible.)
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
This concludes our lesson on health-related vocabulary in Tibetan. By now, you should be able to describe common health issues and remedies, as well as understand some basic illnesses in Tibetan. To improve your Tibetan Vocabulary, you can also use the Polyglot Club website. Find native speakers and ask them any questions! Additionally, don't forget to check out our Vocabulary page for more useful words and phrases.
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