དགེ་བ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

དགེ་བ (dge ba)

  1. (Tibetan Buddhism) A supervisor or director of the other monks in a monastery.

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 39

Tibetan

Noun

དགེ་བ • (dge ba)

  1. virtue, wholesomeness