Transliteration: nyi ma
I. <noun> "Sun". Translation of the Sanskrit "surya", "āditya". Meaning the star for our earth called the sun. 1) "Sun" as a planet. Translation of the Sanskrit "āditya"; the sun as of the གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets and one of the གཟའ་བཅུ་ ten planets. 2) "The sun" is one of འོད་གསལ་རྟགས་བཅུ་ "the ten signs of luminosity".II. <noun> "Sunday", Abbrev. of གཟའ་ཉི་མ་ the day of the week "Sunday".
III. <noun> "Day" meaning ཞག་མ་གཅིག་, the time of one complete day.
IV. <noun> "Sunlight", "sunshine", "daylight", i.e., the light of the daytime sun. 1) "Sunlight". Translation of the Sanskrit "ātapaḥ". The quality of "(sun) light" as opposed to གྲིབ་མ་ "shade (due to indirect sunlight)" is one of the ཁ་དོག་གི་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ eight components of colour and one of the ཡུལ་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ "components of visual form" q.v.
V. <noun> [Mngon] 1) Translation of the Sanskrit "subhanu". An epithet of the 17th year in a རབ་བྱུང་ 60 year cycle, the ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ "Female Water Sheep Year". 2) The count of twelve because the sun is the owner of the twelve astrological houses. 3) The name of one of the ཕྱོགས་སྐྱོང་བཅོ་ལྔ་ "fifteen guardians of the directions" and one of the འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཅུ་བཞི་ "fourteen guardians of the world" q.v.