ཆོས་རྒྱལ

Sikkimese

Etymology

Seemingly a calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja), though compare Tibetan ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ (chos rgyal)

  1. (Buddhism) chogyal

Descendants

  • → Hindi: छोग्याल (chogyāl)
  • → Nepali: छोग्याल (chogyāl)

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 58

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) +‎ རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मराज (dharmarāja).

Pronunciation

Noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ • (chos rgyal)

  1. dharma king, chogyal (one of several Buddhist monarchs in the Tibetan cultural sphere)

Descendants

Proper noun

ཆོས་རྒྱལ • (chos rgyal)

  1. a male given name
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