The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromस्वयम्भू“self-created”
- Mongolian · borrowed fromсоёмбо
- English todaySoyombo
Borrowed from Mongolian соёмбо (sojombo), from Sanskrit स्वयम्भू (svayambhū, “self-created”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soyombo
Today it means: An abugida script developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar in 1686 to write the Mongolian language. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. Full definition →
Mongolian соёмбо ← Sanskrit स्वयम्भू