སྙིང་རྗེ

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Verb

སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)

To love.

Noun

སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)

compassion, kindness

Derived terms

སྙིང་རྗེ་ཅན (snying rje can)

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 64

Tibetan

Etymology

From སྙིང (snying, “mind, heart”) +‎ རྗེ (rje, “lord”); compare the semantic development of Chinese 仁 (rén).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/
Lhasa: /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: nying^f-je
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Noun

སྙིང་རྗེ • (snying rje)

“compassion”
Plain	སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)
Honorific	ཐུགས་རྗེ (thugs rje)

(honorific) compassion, favour, generosity, mercy
(honorific, Buddhism) compassion, karuṇā