གཤིན་རྒྱལ

Tibetan

Etymology

From གཤིན (gshin, “death, the dead”) +‎ རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po, “king, lord”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*kɕin.rɡʲal/
Lhasa: /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kɕin.rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: shin^f-ghyae
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/

Proper noun

གཤིན་རྒྱལ • (gshin rgyal)

(Hinduism) Yama, the Hindu god of death
(astronomy) Pluto, the dwarf planet and Kuiper Belt object
Synonym: གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ (gshin rgyal skar ma)

References

“གཤིན་རྒྱལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
“གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.

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