རྒྱལ་པོ
Sikkimese
Etymology
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Noun
རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po)
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
- Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲal.po/
- Lhasa: /ɟɛː˩˨.poˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*rɡʲal.po/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: ghyaev-bo
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ɟɛː˩˨.poˑ/
Noun
རྒྱལ་པོ • (rgyal po)
Derived terms
- འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po)
Descendants
- → Wutunhua: jjhawo
Proper noun
རྒྱལ་པོ • (rgyal po)
- a male given name