གཅེས

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

གཅེས (gces)

  1. care
  2. keeping

Verb

གཅེས (gces) (transitive)

  1. To take care of, to care for.
  2. To keep.

Derived terms

  • གཅེས་ལྡན (gces ldan, one's love, beloved, dear)
  • གཅེས་པོ (gces po, love, fondness)
  • གཅེས་མེད (gces med, careless)
  • གཅེས་གཞེན (gces gzhen, loyalty, faithfulness)
  • གཅེས་སྲུང (gces srung, protection, defence)

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 51