Transliteration: rtul ba
I. <verb> v.t. བརྟུལ་བ་/ རྟུལ་བ་/ བརྟུལ་བ་/ རྟུལ་/. 1) Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, བསྡུས་པ་ with meaning as follows. It has several connotations such as "to conclude by bringing things together and simplifying", "to wind things up", "to reign in", "to draw things that are long-winded into a point". E.g., བཀྲམ་པའི་དངོས་པོ་རྣམས་ཕྱིར་རྟུལ་བ། "to gather back at the end the things that have been spread out (to gather up again grains that have been rinsed and spread out on a cloth to dry in the sunshine)"; རྩིང་སྤྱོད་བརྟུལ་བ། "reigned in his rough behaviour (of e.g., thumping a table or otherwise carrying on in a strong, fighting style of manner that is regarded as rude in Tibet). 2) "To tame / break in". E.g., རྟ་རྒོད་ཐག་སྒྲོག་གིས་བཅིངས་ཏེ་རྟུལ་བར་བྱེད། "he bound the wild horse with hobbles, then started to break the horse in". 3) Acc. [TC] [Old] for རྩོལ་བ་ and འབད་པ་ q.v.II. <adj> 1) "Dullness", the opp. of རྣོ་བ་ "sharpness". 2) "Strength as in the determined, no-holds-barred attitude of a warrior". E.g., [TC] དགྲ་བོ་ཐལ་བར་རློག་པའི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་རྟུལ་ཕོད་དང་ལྡན་པ། "the kind of person who has the strength, determination, and courage to obliterate an enemy". 3) [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, འཇམ་པ་ "gentle / tamed / not coarse / disciplined".