རྒྱ་མཚོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)

  1. (geography) ocean

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

Compound of རྒྱ (rgya, “vast, broad”) +‎ མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).

Pronunciation

  • Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/
  • Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/, /ɟam˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/

Noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

  1. sea, ocean

Proper noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

  1. a unisex given name, equivalent to English Gyatso, the second word in the personal names of each Dalai Lama except for the first
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