གླ་རྩི

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

གླ་རྩི (gla rtsi)

musk (from the musk deer)

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 37

Tibetan

Etymology

གླ (gla, “musk deer”) +‎ རྩི (rtsi, “essence, extract”). Compare Kurtöp ལར་ཙེ (lartse).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*gla.rt͡si/
Lhasa: /lə˥˥.t͡siˑ/
Batang: /la⁵⁵ tsɪ⁵³/
Zêkog: /hlær htsə/
Bla-Brang: /hla htsə/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*gla.rt͡si/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: lac^f-zi
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /lə˥˥.t͡siˑ/
Khams
- (Batang) IPA^(key): /la⁵⁵ tsɪ⁵³/
Amdo
- (Zêkog) IPA^(key): /hlær htsə/
- (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /hla htsə/

Noun

གླ་རྩི • (gla rtsi)

musk
གླ་རྩི་དབྱུགས་ནས་གླ་ལྤགས་ཉར་
gla rtsi dbyugs nas gla lpags nyar
lack of good judgment
(literally, “to discard the musk but keep the deerskin”)

References

“གླ་རྩི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT). University of California at Berkeley. Directed by Matisoff, James A.
Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 209. →ISBN