བཀྲ་ཤིས

Sikkimese

Noun

བཀྲ་ཤིས (bkra shis)

good luck, fortune, luckiness

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 21

Tibetan

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*bkra.ɕis/
Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂə˥˥.ɕi˥˨/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*bkra.ɕis/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhac^f-xi^h
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂə˥˥.ɕi˥˨/

Noun

བཀྲ་ཤིས • (bkra shis)

good fortune; good luck

Derived terms

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས (bkra shis bde legs)

Proper noun

བཀྲ་ཤིས • (bkra shis)

a unisex given name