ཇ

letter ja [dʑà/tɕʰà] of the Tibetan abugida


འོད

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwa(n/t) (“to shine; light”).


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.


མཆོད་སྟེགས

མཆོད (mchod, “offering, worship, ceremony”) + སྟེགས (stegs, “platform; lifted”)


སྙིང

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-niŋ (“brain, heart, mind”).


སྡིག་པ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-diːk (“scorpion, crab, shrimp”). Compare Mizo tit (“scorpion”) and Tangut 𘝠 (*thjɨ², “scorpion”).


མཚོ

→ Chinese: 錯／错 (cuò)

→ Wutunhua: co


གྲང་མོ

/ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ˩˨.ŋu˥˥/

གྲང + མོ, the former from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ (“cold; freeze”).


ཁྲག

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krak (“blood; red”). Cognate with Chinese 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ, “red”).


རྒྱ་མཚོ

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

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


བོད་ཇ

/pʰøː˩˨.t͡ɕa˥˥/

From བོད (bod, “Tibet”) + ཇ (ja, “tea”).

Tibetan butter tea (Tibetan drink made from tea leaves and yak/cow butter)

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མིག་ཆུ

/mi˥˥.t͡ɕʰu˥˥/


ཤར

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjar (“to rise; east”).


ཨ་རག

→ English: ara


སྒྲ་སྙན

/ʈ͡ʂam˩˨.ȵɛ̃˥˥/


སྟོན་ཀ

/tø̃˥˥.ka˥˥/

/tø̃˥˥.kʰa˥˥/


ཆང

Related to Old Chinese 漿 (OC *ʔsaŋ, “thick fluid, beverage”) (Hill, 2019).


པི་ཝང

From an uncertain source, perhaps Khotanese, with the same origin as the independently borrowed Chinese 琵琶 (pípá).


ཁོ་ཕི

Borrowed from English coffee, from Dutch koffie (“coffee”), from Italian caffè (“coffee”), from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve, “coffee”), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee, a brew”).


ཞུ་མར

lamp (device producing light, chiefly one that uses butter)


ལྗང་ཁུ

/t͡ɕəŋ˩˨.ku˥˥/


སྔོན་པོ

/ŋø̃˥˥.po˥˥/

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋow (“white; green; yellow; blue”). Related to སྔོ (sngo, “green; blue; vegetables; plant”).


ཚ་པོ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa-t ~ dza-t (“hot; fever; hurt; ill; hungry”).


རོལ་མོ

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རོལ་མོ • (rol mo)

/ʐøː˩˨.mo˥˥/

From རོལ (rol, “to amuse oneself”). Compare Chinese 樂 (OC *ŋraːwɢs, *raːwɢ, *ŋraːwɢ, “joyful; music”).


དབང་ཕྱུག

/wəŋ˥˥.t͡ɕʰu˥˨/


དགུན་ཀ

/kuŋ˩˨.kʰə˥˥/


ལྷ་མོ

→ Chinese: 拉姆

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


ཕུར་བུ

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


པ་སངས

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


སྤེན་པ

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


ལྷག་པ

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


མིག་དམར

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

→ Kalmyk: Мигмр (Migmr)

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


རོལ་ཆ

/ʐøː˩˨.t͡ɕʰa˥˥/


ཤིང་ནགས

/ɕiŋ˥˥.na˥˨/


ལྡིར་སྒྲ

ལྡིར (ldir, “to rush, roar, roll”) + སྒྲ (sgra, “sound, voice”)


ཇ་ཀོབ་པི

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ཇ་ཀོབ་པི • (ja kob pi)

ཇ (ja, “tea”) + ཀོབ་པི (kob pi, “coffee”), the second element from English coffee.


མུ་མེན

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མུ་མེན • (mu men)


དབྱངས་ཅན་མ

དབྱངས་ཅན (dbyangs can, “Sarasvati”) + མ (ma, “goddess”).


དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ

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དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ • (dbyangs can sgrol ma)

དབྱངས་ཅན (dbyangs can, “Sarasvati”) + སྒྲོལ་མ (sgrol ma, “Tara”).


གཙང་པོ

→ Chinese: 藏布 (zàngbù)


སྤང་རྒྱན

/paŋ˥˥.cɛ̃ˑ/


དབང་ལྡན

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


སྐར་མའི་ཆགས་སྟངས

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སྐར་མའི་ཆགས་སྟངས • (skar ma'i chags stangs)

སྐར་མའི (skar ma'i) + ཆགས་སྟངས (chags stangs). More at ཆགས (chags) and སྟངས (stangs).


ཐེ་རོན་ཕུ

A transliteration of the English surname Trump


གསེར་དཀར་པོ

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གསེར་དཀར་པོ • (gser dkar po)

གསེར (gser) + དཀར་པོ (dkar po). Calque of Chinese 白金 (báijīn).


སྐར་མ་མཚོ་རྒྱལ

From སྐར་མ (skar ma, “star”) + མཚོ (mtsho, “lake, ocean”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal).


སྐར་མ་གནམ་རྒྱལ

From སྐར་མ (skar ma, “star”) + གནམ (gnam, “sky”) + རྒྱལ (rgyal).


ངང་དཀར་སྐར་ཚོམ

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ངང་དཀར་སྐར་ཚོམ • (ngang dkar skar tshom)

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ཆུ་སྲིན་སྐར་ཚོམ

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པ་ལུའུ་ཅུན

པ་ལུའུ་ཅུན • (pa lu'u cun)

/pa˥˥ luː˥˥ t͡ɕỹ˥˥/

Borrowed from Mandarin 八路軍／八路军 (Bālùjūn).

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八路軍／八路军 (Bālùjūn)

(military, historical) Eighth Route Army


དག་ཅི

/tʰə(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡ɕiˑ/

དག་ཅི་སྣུམ

(botany, cooking) mint, especially Mentha royleana


འོད་ལོ

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འོད་ལོ • ('od lo)


གཤིན་རྒྱལ

From གཤིན (gshin, “death, the dead”) + རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po, “king, lord”).

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(astronomy) Pluto, the dwarf planet and Kuiper Belt object