THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

ཐེམ་སྐས་
Transliteration: them skas
<noun> "Ladder", "steps", "stairs", "staircase"; the name for anything having a set of steps, stairs, or the like for ascending from below to up above. The specific term for a staircase in a house is སྐས་འཛེག་ q.v.