སྐྱེས་བུ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

སྐྱེས་བུ (skyes bu)

  1. human being
  2. great person
  3. (religion) holy man

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 24

Tibetan

Etymology

སྐྱེས (skyes) +‎ བུ (bu)

Noun

སྐྱེས་བུ • (skyes bu)

  1. man, person, being, creature, individual
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