རླུང་རྟ

→ English: wind horse (calque)

→ German: Windpferd (calque)

/luŋ˥˥.tə˥˥/

རླུང (rlung, “wind”) + རྟ (rta, “horse”).

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(mythology) wind horse (mythological creature that symbolises the soul and good luck)


གནས

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na (“to stay, to live, to be”). Cognate with Burmese နား (na:, “to rest”).


འདས་པ

/tɛː˩˧˨.paˑ/


ཐ་དད་པ

(grammar) voluntary [verb], in general comparable to the transitive [verb]


ཐ་མི་དད་པ

(grammar) involuntary [verb], in general comparable to the intransitive [verb]


ཨ་ཙ་ར

(folklore) A type of hobgoblin or spectre.


ཕྲག་པ

/ʈ͡ʂʰa(k̚)ˀ˥˥.pa˥˥/


བྱ་ཚིག

/t͡ɕʰə˩˨.t͡sʰi˥˨/


རྒྱན་ཚིག

/cɛ̃˩˨.t͡sʰi˥˨/


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.


ལག་པ

From Proto-Bodish *lak, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-lak.


དེ་སྒྲ

demonstrative pronoun
demonstrative pronoun


རྗེས་འཇུག

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རྗེས་འཇུག • (rjes 'jug)

/t͡ɕĩ˩˧˨.t͡ɕuː˥˨/


སེང་གེ

seng ge (romanization)
སེངྒེ (alternative)


བརྡ་རྙིང

/tə˩˨.ȵiŋ˥˥/

(linguistics) archaic word; obsolete word


བརླ་ཤ

/lɛː˥˥.ɕa˥˥/


བསྣན་ཚིག

/nɛ̃˥˥.t͡sʰi˥˨/


རྣམ་དབྱེ

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Khalkha Mongolian: тийн ялгал (tiin jalgal) (calque)


མིག་འབྲས

/miŋ˥˥.ʈ͡ʂɛː˥˨/

མིག (mig, “eye”) + འབྲས ('bras, “rice; fruit”).


མིག་དམར

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

(medicine) red eye, as a symptom of disease


མིང་ཚབ

/miŋ˩˨ t͡sʰəp̚˥˨/


དཔུང་པ

From Proto-Bodish *(d)puŋ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *pwaŋ (STEDT). Compare Chinese 膀.


ཞེ་ས

→ Kurtöp: ཞེ་ས (zhesa)

ཞེ (zhe, “mind, mood”) + ས (sa, “field, object”); semantically identified as "an object for which one has respect from the bottom of one's mind" or "an object worthy of respect from the bottom of one's mind". May also be a phonetic shift from རྗེ་ས (rje sa).

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ཞེ་སའི་སྒྲ་བཤད།

ཞེ་སའི་སྒྲ་བཤད།

ཞེ་ས་རྒྱག

to speak in honorifics / with honorific language


མཁའ

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ka-n (“heavens, sky, sun”) (STEDT). Compare Chinese 乾 (OC *kaːn, *ɡran) and Namuyi nɛ⁵⁵ ŋkhɛ³³ mu³³ (“sky”).

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nɛ⁵⁵ ŋkhɛ³³ mu³³

(traditional medicine) space, ether, air


གཞི

Compare Burmese မ္လိယ် (ma.liy), whence Burmese မြေ (mre, “earth; ground”), and Chinese 地 (OC *l'els) (Hill, 2019). Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-lej.


མཐེབ་གཞོང

/tʰep̚˥˥.ɕoŋˑ/

མཐེབ (mtheb) + གཞོང (gzhong). Compare Chinese 鍵盤 /键盘 (jiànpán).


ཟངས་ཆས་སྤྱོད་པའི་དུས་རབས

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ཟངས་ཆས་སྤྱོད་པའི་དུས་རབས • (zangs chas spyod pa'i dus rabs)

zangs chas spyod pa'i dus rabs (romanization)

bo:ཟངས་ཆས་སྤྱོད་པའི་དུས་རབས།

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སྔོན་འཇུག

/ŋø̃˥˥.t͡ɕuː˥˨/


དོ

ད་ལས་ཀ་དེ་བྱེད་དོ


འགྲམ་པ

/ʈ͡ʂam˩˨.pa˥˥/

/nɖ͡ʐɑ̃˥˥.mba˥˧/


འབྱུང་ཁུངས

/t͡ɕuŋ˩˨.kuŋˑ/

(grammar) traditional name for the particles ལས (las) and ནས (nas), corresponding to the ablative and the elative respectively


ཤོག་ངོས

shog ngos (romanization)
ཤོག་ངོ (alternative)

/ɕo(k̚)ˀ˥˥.ŋøː˥˨/


ཆམས་པ་ཕོག

/t͡ɕʰam˥˥.pa˥˥ pʰo˥˨/

ཆམས་པ (chams pa, “common cold”) + ཕོག (phog, “hit, strike”)


སྐྲངས་པ

/ʈ͡ʂaŋ˥˥.pəˑ/

སྐྲངས (skrangs, past of སྐྲང (skrang)) + པ (pa, nominalization suffix)

past of <i class="Tibt mention" lang="bo">སྐྲང</i> (skrang)

(astrology) one of the twenty-seven coincidences of stars in traditional astrology