ཕོ་ཉ

→ French: panda (possible derivation)

ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྔོན་དུ་ང་ཡི་ཕོ་ཉ་གཏོང


གྲོགས་པོ

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གྲོགས་པོ • (grogs po)

friend, companion, teacher, advocate, assistant, help, ally, pal, male friend, male companion, husband, life-companion, support


བུ་མོ

བུ་མོ • (bu mo)


སྲས་མོ

/sɛː˥˥.mo˥˥/

/ʈ͡ʂɛː˥˥.mo˥˥/

སྲས (sras, “son”) + མོ (mo, feminine suffix)


སྲས

(honorific) son, child, offspring; prince


བཙན་པོ

→ Middle Chinese: 贊普 (/*t͡sɑnᴴ pʰuo^X/)

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贊普／赞普 (zànpǔ)

Mandarin: 贊普／赞普 (zànpǔ)

/t͡sɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

བཙན (btsan, “severe, strong, powerful”) + པོ (po, “masculine agent suffix”). Related to བཙན་པ (btsan pa, “strict, powerful; power, force; king”), བརྩན (brtsan, “demon; secure, strong, mighty; king; power”), བཙན (btsan, “tsan spirit; ghost of hunting; secure, mighty; king; power, force”); ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-tsan (STEDT).


མ

The sixteenth letter of the Tibetan alphabet


མ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“no, not”).

བལྟས་ཀྱང་མ་མཐོང

negates the following verb in the past tense.

negates the following verb in the imperative tense; prohibitive particle.

ར་མ་ལུག

placed between nouns to indicate “neither ... nor ...”.


དགེ་རྒན

→ Bonan: gergen

→ East Yugur: gergan

→ Wutunhua: ggaiggan

/ke˩˨.kɛ̃˥˥/

From དགེ (dge, “virtuous, good”) + རྒན (rgan, “elder”).


སློབ་ཕྲུག

/lup̚˥˥.ʈ͡ʂʰu˥˨/


བལ་པོ

From བལ (bal, “Nepali; wool”) + པོ (po, “forming nominalizations”).


བོད་པ

/pʰøː˩˨.pa˥˥/


དབྱིན་ཇི

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དབྱིན་ཇི • (dbyin ji)

/jĩ˥˥.t͡ɕi˥˥/

Englishman, person from England or Britain


བསྟན་འཛིན

/tɛ̃˥˥.t͡sĩ˥˥/

From བསྟན (bstan, “teaching”) + འཛིན ('dzin, “take hold of, adhere to”).

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an adherent; one who upholds and adheres to the doctrines


བོད་མི

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བོད་མི • (bod mi)


རྒྱ་མི

From རྒྱ (rgya, “expanse, empire”) + མི (mi, “person”), with the first part being short for རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”).


ཨེམ་ཆི

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ཨེམ་ཆི • (em chi)

/ʔem˥˥.t͡ɕʰi˥˥/

/ʔəm˥˥.t͡ɕʰi˥˥/

From Mongolian ᠡᠮᠴᠢ (emči, “doctor”); compare Modern Khalkha Mongolian эмч (emč).


སྐྱེ་དམན

/ce˥˥.mɛ̃˥˥/


པ་ཕ

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Lisu ꓐꓹ ꓐꓽ (bɑ̌ bɑ̀)


འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ

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འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ


འབྲུག་པ

/ʈ͡ʂu(k̚)ˀ˩˨.pə˥˥/


མ་བྱན

/ma˩˨.t͡ɕɛ̃ˑ/


ཞིང་པ

ཞིང (zhing, “field, farmland”) + པ (pa, “nominalisation/agent suffix”)


མཁན་པོ

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→ Chinese: 堪布 (kānbù)
→ Middle Mongol: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
Classical Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮᠪᠤ (qambu)
Buryat: хамба (xamba)
Mongolian: хамба (xamba)

/kʰɛ̃˥˥.po˥˥/

Inherited from Old Tibetan མཁན་པོ (mkhan po), calqued from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya).

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(Tibetan Buddhism) khenpo (degree for higher Buddhist studies given in Tibetan Buddhism)


སྨན་པ

→ Mangghuer: manba

→ Mongghul: smanba

→ Wutunhua: mangba

/mɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/

སྨན (sman, “medicine”) + པ (pa, agent suffix).

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སྨན་པ་བསྟེན

སྨན་པ་གྲགས་ཅན


སློབ་གྲོགས

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སློབ་གྲོགས • (slob grogs)


ཨ་ཞང

/ʔa˥˥.ɕaŋ˥˥/


དྲུང་ཡིག

/ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ˩˨.ji(k̚)ˀ˥˥/


ཚན་རིག་པ

/t͡sʰɛ̃˥˥.ʐi˥˨.paˑ/


ཨ་ལྕག

/ʔa˥˥.t͡ɕa(k̚)ˀ˥˨/


ཐེ་རོན་ཕུ

A transliteration of the English surname Trump


ཨ་ཁུ

/ʔə˥˥.kʰu˥˥/


ཐེ་བྲང

སྤོ་བོ སྤོ་བོ#Tibetan

(demonym) people from the Kingdom of Powo, སྤོ་བོ (spo bo), in southeastern Tibet, known for their connection to the Yarlung dynasty.


སློབ་མ

→ Wutunhua: lhoma