ཁྲིམས

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

ཁྲིམས (khrims)

  1. (law) law (generally)
  2. (law) right
  3. (law) The law of a polity.

Usage notes

  • Traditionally, the term is clarified as either the law of the state or religious law.

Derived terms

  • ཁྲིམས་ཁང (khrims khang, “court”)
  • ཁྲིམས་འགལ (khrims 'gal, “unlawful, illegal”)
  • ཁྲིམས་མཐུན (khrims mthun, “legal, lawful”)
  • ཁྲིམས་བདག (khrims bdag, “judge”)
  • ཁྲིམས་དཔོན (khrims dpon, “judge”)
  • ཁྲིམས་རྩ (khrims rtsa, “code of law”)
  • ཁྲིམས་འཛིན (khrims 'dzin, “judicial”)
  • ཁྲིམས་ཞི (khrims zhi, “bill, law”)
  • ཁྲིམས་ཞིབ (khrims zhib, “verdict, judgement”)
  • ཁྲིམས་ལུགས (khrims lugs, “legal system”)

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 30
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