རྒྱལ་པོ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po)

  1. king, emperor

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

རྒྱལ (rgyal, to be victorious) +‎ པོ (po, nominalisation/agent suffix). Cognate with Dzongkha རྒྱལཔོ (rgyalpo).

Pronunciation


Noun

རྒྱལ་པོ • (rgyal po)

  1. king, monarch

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Wutunhua: jjhawo

Proper noun

རྒྱལ་པོ • (rgyal po)

  1. a male given name