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ཞ་
Transliteration: zha
I. <consonant letter> The twenty-first of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the forward, upper part of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = warm aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང…
ཤིན་ཏུ་མོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: shin tu mo yig
<phrase> "Extremely female letters" or "most female letters". Grammar term. Letters of extremely female gender are defined in ལུང་སྟོན་པ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Application of Gender Signs q.v. for a summary of the text. See also ཕོ་ཡིག་ male letters; མོ་ཡིག་ female letters; and མོ་གཤམ་ཡི་གེ་ barren letters.
The Application of Gender Signs creates a set of gender categories for each of three types …
ཙ་
Transliteration: tsa
I. <consonant letter> The seventeenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the forward, upper end of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tongue to the palate; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and un-sounded. 2) Wh…
ར་བཏགས་
Transliteration: ra btags
<noun> "Sub-joined ra". See བཏགས་པ་ for a general discussion of sub-joined letters and see also ཡ་བཏགས་ sub-joined ya, ལ་བཏགས་ sub-joined la, and ཝ་བཏགས་ sub-joined wa. When a ར་ ra consonant is sub-fixed to a མིང་གཞི་ name-base letter, the sub-joined letter itself and the combined letter both are called ར་བཏགས་; i.e., ར་བཏགས་ means both "sub-fixed ra" and "letter with ra sub-fix".
The sub-f…
ཛ་
Transliteration: dza
I. <consonant letter> The nineteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the forward, upper end of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tongue to the palate; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When u…
ཟ་
Transliteration: za
I. <consonant letter> The twenty-second of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the teeth; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = warm aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-bas…
མོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: mo yig
<phrase> 1) "Female letters". Grammar term. Letters of female gender are defined in ལུང་སྟོན་པ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Application of Gender Signs q.v. for a summary of the text. See also ཕོ་ཡིག་ male letters; མ་ནིང་ཡི་གེ་ neutral letters; ཤིན་ཏུ་མོ་ཡིག་ extremely female letters; and མོ་གཤམ་ཡི་གེ་ barren letters.
The Application of Gender Signs creates a set of gender categories for each of three t…
ཅ་
Transliteration: ca
I. <consonant letter> The fifth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་དབུས་ the centre of the forward part of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tongue to the palate; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and un-so…
ག་
Transliteration: ga
I. <consonant letter> The third of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the throat; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the throat; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = inner connection of the throat; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) i) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, t…
ཝ་བཏགས་
Transliteration: wa btags
<noun> "Sub-joined wa". See བཏགས་པ་ for a general discussion of sub-joined letters and see also ཡ་བཏགས་ sub-joined ya, ར་བཏགས་ sub-joined ra, and ལ་བཏགས་ sub-joined la. When a ཝ་ wa consonant is sub-fixed to a མིང་གཞི་ name-base letter, the sub-joined letter itself and the combined letter both are called ཝ་བཏགས་; i.e., ཝ་བཏགས་ means both "sub-fixed wa" and "letter with wa sub-fix".
The sub-f…
ཕོ་ཡིག་
Transliteration: pho yig
<phrase> "Male letters". Grammar term. Letters of male gender are defined in ལུང་སྟོན་པ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པ་ Application of Gender Signs q.v. for a summary of the text. See also མ་ནིང་ཡི་གེ་ neutral letters; མོ་ཡིག་ female letters; ཤིན་ཏུ་མོ་ཡིག་ extremely female letters; and མོ་གཤམ་ཡི་གེ་ barren letters.
1) First, of the two things that make up the entire Tibetan lettering set—consonants and vo…
བཏགས་པ་
Transliteration: btags pa
I. <verb> Past of v.t. འཐག་པ་ q.v. Meaning as follows. 1) "Defeated", "annihilated". 2) "Powdered", "ground", "milled". 3) "Knitted", "wove" / "woven", etc.
II. <verb> Past of v.t. འདོགས་པ་ q.v. Meaning as follows. 1) "Named", "designated", "labelled", "imputed (a label / name / designation)". 2) "Affixed".
III. <noun> Cognate to འདོགས་པ་. 1) Something which has been affixed as a …
རྐྱང་པ་
Transliteration: rkyang pa
<adj> 1) To indicate that something is purely that with nothing else in it at all, e.g., གསེར་རྐྱང་། "gold alone", དངུལ་རྐྱང་། "just silver", བལ་རྐྱང་། "only wool", ནང་མི་རྐྱང་པ། "just family", དཀར་རྐྱང་དཀར་པོ། "pure white (colour) i.e., not a shade of white but pure white—this structure is used for all colours. 2) To indicate something by itself, something unique, that itself and nothing e…
ཝ་
Transliteration: wa
I. <consonant letter> The twentieth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the lips; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = partial bringing together of the lips; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-bas…
ཚ་
Transliteration: tsha
I. <consonant letter> The eighteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the forward, upper end of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ …
ད་
Transliteration: da
I. <consonant letter> The eleventh of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the teeth; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་རྩེ་ the tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tip of the tongue to the teeth; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When …
ཆ་
Transliteration: cha
I. <consonant letter> The sixth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་དབུས་ the centre of the forward part of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used a…
ཐ་
Transliteration: tha
I. <consonant letter> The tenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the teeth; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་རྩེ་ the tip of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, t…
མཚན་ཉིད་འཇུག་གཞི་ཆོས་ལྔ་
Transliteration: mtshan nyid 'jug gzhi chos lnga
"The five dharmas which are the basis for engaging characteristics" is defined as མཚན་ཉིད་གང་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་གཞི་ནི་རྒྱུ་མཚན། མིང་། རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད། ཡང་དག་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་སོ།.
ཧ་
Transliteration: ha
I. <consonant letter> The twenty-ninth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language with pronunciation similar to "ha". 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the throat; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the throat; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = warm aspirated and sounded. 2) When used a…
ཕ་
Transliteration: pha
I. <consonant letter> The fourteenth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the lips; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the lips; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = opened larynx; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = aspirated and un-sounded. 2) When used as a མིང་གཞི་ name-base, the consonant is de…
མཐའ་
Transliteration: mtha'
<noun> Lit. meaning the "edge" or "outer limit" of something, the term is used in many ways. Translation of the Sanskrit "anta". 1) The physical boundary of something e.g., the boundaries of a district. 2) The figurative edge, limit, outer edge; e.g., མཐའ་མེད་པ་ is to have no limit or edge, "limitless". 3) That which is at the edge and hence which borders on or bounds the inner situation. E…
ང་
Transliteration: nga
I. <consonant letter> Grammatically speaking, the fourth of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the throat and nose; བྱེད་པ་ producer = the throat; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = inner connection of the throat; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sounded. 2) When …
ཇ་
Transliteration: ja
I. <consonant letter> The seventh of the གསལ་བྱེད་སུམ་ཅུ་ thirty consonants of the Tibetan language. 1) The enunciation of the consonant is defined as having: སྐྱེ་གནས་ place of production = the palate; བྱེད་པ་ producer = ལྕེ་དབུས་ the centre of the forward part of the tongue; ནང་གི་རྩོལ་བ་ inner effort = joining the tongue to the palate; and ཕྱིའི་རྩོལ་བ་ outer effort = unaspirated and sou…
ཡ་བཏགས་
Transliteration: ya btags
<noun> "Sub-joined ya". See བཏགས་པ་ for a general discussion of sub-joined letters and see also ར་བཏགས་ sub-joined ra, ལ་བཏགས་ sub-joined ya, and ཝ་བཏགས་ sub-joined wa. When a ཡ་ ya consonant is sub-fixed to a མིང་གཞི་ name-base letter, the sub-joined letter itself and the combined letter both are called ཡ་བཏགས་; i.e., ཡ་བཏགས་ means both "sub-fixed ya" and "letter with ya sub-fix".
The sub-f…