རྒྱལ་མཚན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

རྒྱལ་མཚན (rgyal mtshan)

  1. (Buddhism) dhvaja
  2. (by extension) flag

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 43

Tibetan

Etymology

From རྒྱལ (rgyal, “to be victorious”) +‎ མཚན (mtshan, “mark”).

Noun

རྒྱལ་མཚན • (rgyal mtshan)

  1. dhvaja (victory banner)

Proper noun

རྒྱལ་མཚན • (rgyal mtshan)

  1. a male given name
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