རྒྱ

Sherpa

Noun

རྒྱ (rgya) (Devanagari spelling र्ग्य)

  1. lowlands

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Compare Chinese 夏 (OC *ɡraːʔ, *ɡraːs).

Pronunciation

Noun

རྒྱ • (rgya)

  1. extent, size, area, width
  2. vastness, extensiveness
  3. Abbreviation of རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”).
    རྒྱ་རྣམས
    rgya rnams
    the Chinese
  4. Abbreviation of རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”).
  5. enclosure, net, web
  6. seal, stamp, mark, sign
Derived terms

Verb

རྒྱ • (rgya) (nominal form རྒྱ་བ)

  1. (intransitive) to increase in bulk or quantity, to augment, to spread
Conjugation
Conjugation of རྒྱ
Tense/Mood Form Wylie
Present རྒྱ
རྒྱས		rgya
rgyas
Future རྒྱ
རྒྱས		rgya
rgyas
Past རྒྱསrgyas
Imperative རྒྱསrgyas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-gya-n. (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Noun

རྒྱ • (rgya)

  1. beard
Derived terms
  • རྒྱ་བོ (rgya bo)
  • རྒྱ་མོ (rgya mo)

References
  • “རྒྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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