郎
/lɑŋ³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•an official's title · man; male adult · A term of address used by women for their husband or lover: darling; love
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *raːŋ): phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ) + semantic 邑 (“county; town”). STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-laŋ (“penis; male; husband”), including Burmese လင် (lang, “husband”) as a descendant. However, Zev Handel considers comparison to this root to be improbable since the meaning of "husband; young man" is not attested in early texts. These senses seem to…