THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

ཁ་ཟེར་བ་
Transliteration: kha zer ba
<adj><adv> A term that indicates speaking badly in varying degrees about someone or something. Cf. with ཕྱར་ཀ་ which includes the additional sense of fault-finding. 1) To speak badly of someone / something in the general sense of not speaking very nicely about the person / it. "To speak ill of...", "to say bad things about". 2) To speak very badly about someone in order to bring them down, possibly saying all sorts of things that are not true about them. 3) To actually curse someone / something.