རྒྱ

རྒྱ (rgya) (Devanagari spelling र्ग्य)

1. lowlands

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རྒྱ (rgya)

1. Any deerlike animal, including saigas and antelopes.

• 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

Compare Chinese 夏 (OC *ɡraːʔ, *ɡraːs).

རྒྱ • (rgya)

1. extent, size, area, width
2. vastness, extensiveness
3. abbreviation of རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”)

   རྒྱ་རྣམས

   rgya rnams

   the Chinese

4. abbreviation of རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”)
5. enclosure, net, web
6. seal, stamp, mark, sign

རྒྱ • (rgya) (nominal form རྒྱ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to increase in bulk or quantity, to augment, to spread

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-gya-n. (STEDT).

རྒྱ • (rgya)

1. beard

• “རྒྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.