རྟེན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

རྟེན (rten)

  1. basis, foundation, base

Derived terms

  • རྟེན་འབྲེལ (rten 'brel)
  • རྟེན་གསུམ (rten gsum)

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 68