རྒྱལ་པོ

རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”) + པོ (po, nominalisation/agent suffix). Cognate with Dzongkha རྒྱལཔོ (rgyalpo).


བྱང་ཆུབ

/t͡ɕʰaŋ˩˨.t͡ɕʰu˥˨/

བྱང (byang, “purified, perfected”) + ཆུབ (chub, “pervasively realized”).


བྱམས་པ

/t͡ɕʰam˩˨ pa˥˥/

Semantic loan from Sanskrit मैत्रेय (maitreya, “friendly, benevolent”).


ཟླ་བ

/nda˩˧.ɣɑ˥˥/

ཟླ (zla) + བ (ba), the former from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/ɡ-la (“moon, month”). The name is often given to children born on a Monday.


དཀོན་མཆོག

/kø̃˥˥.t͡ɕo(k̚)ˀ˥˨/

From དཀོན (dkon, “rare”) + མཆོག (mchog, “excellent”)


རྒྱལ་མཚན

From རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”) + མཚན (mtshan, “mark”).


ཉི་མ

ཉི (nyi) is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”).


བརྩོན་འགྲུས

/t͡sỹ˥˥.ʈ͡ʂyː˥˨/


རྡོ་རྗེ

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རྡོ་རྗེ • (rdo rje)

/toː˩˨.t͡ɕe˥˥/

རྡོ (rdo, “stone, rock”) + རྗེ (rje, “master, lord, king”)


རྒྱ་མཚོ

Compound of རྒྱ (rgya, “vast, broad”) + མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).

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a unisex given name, equivalent to English Gyatso, the second word in the personal names of each Dalai Lama except for the first


སེངྒེ

sengge (romanization)
སེང་གེ (alternative)

Borrowed from a Central Asian substrate language. Compare Zhang-Zhung [script needed] (saṅgo), Chinese 狻猊 (OC * swar ŋe), 獅 (OC *sri), Proto-Iranian *cárguš (whence Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”)), Sanskrit सिंह (siṃha), Tocharian A śiśäk, Tocharian B ṣecake and Chechen цӏокъ (cʼoqʼ), among other Caucasian cognates.


བཀྲ་ཤིས

/ʈ͡ʂə˥˥.ɕi˥˨/


སེང་གེ

seng ge (romanization)
སེངྒེ (alternative)


བདེ་ལེགས

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བདེ་ལེགས • (bde legs)


ཆོས་རྒྱལ

/t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

Compound of ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja).


ཡེ་ཤེས

From ཡེ (ye, “primordial”) + ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand, realise, cognise”).


བསྟན་འཛིན

→ Chinese: 丹增 (Dānzēng)

→ English: Tenzin

/tɛ̃˥˥.t͡sĩ˥˥/

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


རིན་ཆེན

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仁欽／仁钦 (Rénqīn)

→ Chinese: 仁欽／仁钦 (Rénqīn)

/ʐĩ˩˨.t͡ɕʰẽ˥˥/

From རིན (rin, “value, worth”) + ཆེན (chen, “big”).


དཔལ་ལྡན

From དཔལ (dpal, “glory; splendor; abundance; magnificence”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to possess”).


དབང་ཕྱུག

/wəŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰu˥˨/


སྟོབས་རྒྱས

/top̚˥˥.cɛː˥˥/

From སྟོབས (stobs, “strength, force ,vigor”) + རྒྱས (rgyas, “extended; fully grown; spread”).


བསྟན་པ

/tɛ̃˥˥.pa˥˥/


ལྷ་མོ

→ Chinese: 拉姆

From ལྷ (lha, “god”) + མོ (mo, “female”).


མིག་དམར

→ Mongolian: ᠮᠢᠭᠮᠠᠷ (miɣmar) / мягмар (mjagmar)

→ Kalmyk: Мигмр (Migmr)

From མིག (mig, “eye”) + དམར (dmar, “red”).


ལྷག་པ

→ Mongolian: ᡀᠠᠭᠪᠠ (lhaɣba) / лхагва (lxagva)


ཕུར་བུ

→ Mongolian: ᠫᠦᠷᠪᠦ (pürbü) / пүрэв (pürev)


པ་སངས

→ Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠰᠠᠩ (basang) / баасан (baasan)


སྤེན་པ

→ Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠮᠪᠠ (bimba) / бямба (bjamba)


ཚེ་རིང

/t͡sʰi˥˥.ʐiŋ˥˨/

From ཚེ (tshe, “life”) + རིང (ring, “long”).


བདེ་འབྱུང

From བདེ (bde, “bliss”) + འབྱུང ('byung, “to arise, happen, take place”).


བློ་བཟང

Mongolian: Лувсан (Luvsan)

Tuvan: Лопсаң (Lopsañ)

From བློ (blo, “mind”) + བཟང (bzang, “good”), roughly meaning "kind-hearted".


པད་མ་དབྱངས་ཅན

པད་མ (pad ma, “lotus”) + དབྱངས་ཅན (dbyangs can, “Sarasvati”).


སྒྲོལ་མ

From སྒྲོལ (sgrol, “deliverance; transport”) + མ (ma, “mother”)


དབང་ལྡན

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to possess”).


དངོས་གྲུབ

From དངོས (dngos, “true, real”) + གྲུབ (grub, “accomplishment”).


འབྲུག་མོ

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འབྲུག་མོ • ('brug mo)

འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder, dragon”) + མོ (mo, “female”).


ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས

/t͡sʰyː˥˥.ʈ͡ʂʰim˥˥/


རྒྱལ་མོ

From རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”) + མོ (mo, “female”)


བློ་གྲོས

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བློ་གྲོས • (blo gros)

/lo˥˥.ʈ͡ʂøː˥˨/

From བློ (blo, “mind, awareness, intellect, knowledge”) + གྲོས (gros, “suggestion, recommendation”).


གཡུ་འབྲུག

From གཡུ (g.yu, “turquoise”) + འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon; thunder”)


རྟ་མགྲིན

From རྟ (rta, “horse”) + མགྲིན (mgrin, “neck”). Calque of Sanskrit हयग्रीव (hayagrīva), made from हय (haya, “horse”) + ग्रीवा (grīvā, “neck”).


ནམ་མཁའ

From Classical Tibetan གནམ་མཁའ (gnam mkha', “sky, heaven”).


ཀུན་དགའ

From ཀུན (kun, “all, every, each”) + དགའ (dga', “like; love”)


འཇམ་དབྱངས

Clipped from འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས ('jam dpal dbyangs, “Mañjuśrī”).


མགོན་པོ

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མགོན་པོ • (mgon po)

From མགོན (mgon, “protector; master; lord”) + པོ (po, “man”).


ཆོས་སྐྱོང

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + སྐྱོང (skyong, “protector; guardian”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मपाल (dharmapāla), made from धर्म (dharma, “dharma”) + पाला (pālā, “guard, protector, keeper”).


ཨོ་རྒྱན

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ཨོ་རྒྱན • (o rgyan)


འཕྲིན་ལས

From འཕྲིན ('phrin, “message, information”) + ལས (las, “work, action”).


བསྐལ་བཟང

From བསྐལ (bskal, “kalpa”) + བཟང (bzang, “good”).


དར་རྒྱས

From དར (dar, “development”) + རྒྱས (rgyas, “extended; fully grown; spread”).


དབང་པོ

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + པོ (po, “man”).


རིག་འཛིན

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


དཔའ་མོ

From དཔའ (dpa', “brave, courageous”) + མོ (mo, “woman, female”).


བདུད་འདུལ

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བདུད་འདུལ • (bdud 'dul)

From བདུད (bdud, “demon”) + འདུལ ('dul, “to conquer; to tame; to subdue”).


ཐུབ་བསྟན

From ཐུབ (thub, “the Buddha”) + བསྟན (bstan, “teaching”).


ངག་དབང

From ངག (ngag, “word, speech”) + དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”).


འོད་ཟེར

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འོད་ཟེར • ('od zer)


སྐལ་བཟང

From སྐལ (skal, “fate”) + བཟང (bzang, “good”).


དགྲ་འདུལ

From དགྲ (dgra, “foe, enemy”) + འདུལ ('dul, “to conquer; to tame; to subdue”).


ཆོས་ལྡན

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to possess”).


སྟོབས་ལྡན

From སྟོབས (stobs, “strength, force, vigor”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to possess”).


ཆོས་དར

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + དར (dar, “flag”).


ཚེས་གཅིག

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + གཅིག (gcig, “one”).


ཚེས་གཉིས

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + གཉིས (gnyis, “two”).


ཚེས་གསུམ

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + གསུམ (gsum, “three”).


ཚེས་དྲུག

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + དྲུག (drug, “six”).


ཚེས་བརྒྱད

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + བརྒྱད (brgyad, “eight”).


ཚེས་བཅུ

From ཚེས (tshes, “date”) + བཅུ (bcu, “ten”).


འགྱུར་མེད

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འགྱུར་མེད • ('gyur med)

From འགྱུར ('gyur, “change”) + མེད (med, “to be not”).


དོན་ལྡན

From དོན (don, “significance; purpose; goal”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to pocess”).


ལྷ་དབང

From ལྷ (lha, “god, deity”) + དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”).


ཚེ་བརྟན

From ཚེ (tshe, “life”) + བརྟན (brtan, “firm, solid”).


རྣམ་རྒྱལ

From རྣམ (rnam, “division, class, species”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”).


འཇིགས་མེད

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འཇིགས་མེད • ('jigs med)

From འཇིགས ('jigs, “fear, horror”) + མེད (med, “to be not”).


མཁས་གྲུབ

From མཁས (mkhas, “to be good at”) + གྲུབ (grub, “accomplishment”).


ཆོས་འབྱོར

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + འབྱོར ('byor, “to adhere, stick to”).


འོད་ལྡན

From འོད ('od, “light; illumination”) + ལྡན (ldan, “to possess”).


མི་བསྐྱོད

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མི་བསྐྱོད • (mi bskyod)

Clipped from མི་བསྐྱོད་པ (mi bskyod pa, “Akshobhya”).


མཁའ་འགྲོ

Clipped from མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ (mkha' 'gro ma, “dakini”).


ཚེ་དཔག

Clipped from ཚེ་དཔག་མེད (tshe dpag med, “Amitābha”).


དབང་མོ

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + མོ (mo, “female”).


མཚོ་མོ

From མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”) + མོ (mo, “female”).


ཆོས་འཕེལ

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + འཕེལ ('phel, “to spread”).


དབང་ཆེན

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + ཆེན (chen, “large”).


འབྲུག་གྲགས

འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder, dragon”) + མོ (mo, “name, reputation”).


དབང་འདུས

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + འདུས ('dus, “to conquer; to tame; to subdue”).


ཚེ་དབང

From ཚེ (tshe, “life”) + དབང (dbang, “glory; splendor; abundance; magnificence”).


ཚེ་དཔལ

From ཚེ (tshe, “life”) + དཔལ (dpal, “glory; splendor; abundance; magnificence”).


དཔལ་མོ

From དཔལ (dpal, “glory; splendor; abundance; magnificence”) + མོ (mo, “female”).


ཆོས་མཚོ

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) + མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).


སྟོབས་རྒྱལ

From སྟོབས (stobs, “strength, force ,vigor”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”).


འབྲུག་རྒྱལ

From འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder, dragon”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”).


དབང་རྒྱལ

From དབང (dbang, “power, force, might”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”).


ལྷ་རྒྱལ

From ལྷ (lha, “god”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”).


ལམ་བཟང

From ལམ (lam, “path, way”) + བཟང (bzang, “good”).


བསྟན་སྐྱོང

From བསྟན (bstan, “teaching”) + སྐྱོང (skyong, “to guard, nurture”).


བསྟན་དར

From བསྟན (bstan, “teaching”) + དར (dar, “development”).


ཐོགས་མེད

From ཐོགས (thogs, “impediment; hindrance”) + མེད (med, “to be not”).


ཀུན་མཁྱེན

From ཀུན (kun, “all, every, each”) + མཁྱེན (mkhyen, “to know, comprehend, understand, cognise”).


ལྷ་སྐྱིད

From ལྷ (lha, “god”) + སྐྱིད (skyid, “happy”).


དམ་འཛིན

/tʰəm˩˨.t͡sĩˑ/