རྒན་པོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

By surface analysis, རྒན (rgan, “old, aged”) +‎ -པོ (-po, person).

Noun

རྒན་པོ (rgan po)

  1. elder, senior, village leader

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 42

Tibetan

Etymology

From རྒན (rgan, “elder”) +‎ -པོ (-po, “person”).

Pronunciation

Noun

རྒན་པོ • (rgan po)

  1. elder, headman, senior, uncle, grandfather

Usage notes

  • Used to denote any elder man, with the connotation of deference and respect.
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