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འགེལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gel ba
<verb> v.t. བཀལ་བ་/ འགེལ་བ་/ དགལ་བ་/ ཁོལ་/. The basic meaning is "to impose some kind of load or burden". 1) "To impose" taxation or some other undesirable burden. E.g., [TC] ཁྲལ་འགེལ་བ། "to levy a tax", "to tax"; ཉེས་ཆད་འགེལ་བ། "to impose punishment"; དངུལ་ཁྲལ་འགེལ་བ། "to levy a monetary" / "to impose a monetary tax"; ནག་མེད་ཉེས་བཀལ། "imposition of punishment on someone not at fault"; སྔར་…
འགྱུ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gyu ba
I. <verb> v.i. འགྱུས་པ་/ འགྱུ་བ་/ འགྱུ་བ་//. Similar to but different from རྒྱུ་བ་. This term means "to move" in the sense that something འཕྲོ་བ་ comes out from / moves out from some place. It has the sense of something moving out and appearing from a place where it was not before. E.g., like lightning flashing forth from clouds or like thoughts suddenly moving out from the surface of mind.…
འགུལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gul ba
<verb> v.i. འགུལ་བ་/ འགུལ་བ་/ འགུལ་བ་//. Transitive form is སྒུལ་བ་ q.v. "To move back and forth" (without an agent causing the motion). This is used in various contexts for various kinds of back and forth motion, many of which have their own, specific terminology in English. Hence "to shake / quake / quiver / tremble / waver", etc. E.g., [TC] ལུས་འགུལ་ "body shook"; སེམས་འགུལ། "mind wavere…
འགྱང་བ་
Transliteration: 'gyang ba
<verb> v.i. འགྱངས་པ་/ འགྱང་བ་/ འགྱང་བ་//. Transitive form is བགྱང་བ་ q.v. Meaning to go on for longer than expected. This is used to refer both to situations that go on for longer than necessary because they have been dragged out deliberately or because of intervention and to situations that just go on and on for a long time. Hence also "to take longer" than expected, "to have been made to …
འགྲོ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gro ba
I. <verb> v.i. ཕྱིན་པ་/ འགྲོ་བ་/ འགྲོ་བ་/ སོང་/. The basic meaning of this verb is "to go" and, as in English, is used in many ways to indicate the general meaning of exiting one situation and travelling to another. For example, in addition to the basic meaning of "to travel", it also means: "to go together with" as in ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ལྔ་; "to go after" in the sense of to follow; "to become";…
འགོར་བ་
Transliteration: 'gor ba
<verb> v.i. འགོར་བ་/ འགོར་བ་/ འགོར་བ་//. Transitive form is བགོར་བ་ q.v. 1) "To take a long time", "to be a long time" for some reason. E.g., [TC] ཁ་སང་མངགས་པའི་མི་དེ་ཡུན་རིང་འགོར་སོང་། "the person who was despatched yesterday took a long time". E.g., ལམ་དུ་འགོར་ནས་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་སླེབས་མ་ཐུབ་པ། "the journey took a long time so they were not able to arrive on time". This does not necessarily mea…
འགོལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gol ba
I. <adj> Equivalent to དབེན་པ་ meaning "empty" or "vacant" q.v.
II. <noun> "Opportunity" in the sense of "spare time" or "free time" or "time in one's schedule".
III. Note that, although [RYD] and other sources give it with the same meaning as གོལ་བ་ "to stray / deviate", that is not correct; it has the meanings given above. However, some scribes might mistakenly write འགོལ་བ་ and its d…
འགྲང་བ་
Transliteration: 'grang ba
I. <verb> v.i. འགྲངས་པ་/ འགྲང་བ་/ འགྲང་བ་//. "To be sated" or "to be satiated" in the particular sense "to be full" i.e., to have the feeling of sufficiency after eating food. In coll. English, "to have had enough / to have had sufficient (food)". E.g., [TC] ཟས་ཀྱིས་གྲོད་པ་འགྲངས་དྲགས་ནས་ན་སོང་། "due to eating past the point of fullness, he became sick (i.e. he became sick due to over-eating…
འགྲེ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gre ba
I. <verb> v.i. འགྲེས་པ་/ འགྲེ་བ་/ འགྲེ་བ་//. 1) Transitive form is སྒྲེ་བ་ q.v. Meaning "for things which were disparate to have been put together so that they are now in one group together or the same sort, class, or type". In positive cases "to be grouped together" and in pejorative cases "to be lumped in together". The common phrase རིགས་འགྲེས་པ་ "to have been grouped into the same type"…
བརྒྱུད་འགལ་
Transliteration: brgyud 'gal
<noun> 1) "Indirect contradiction" in logic. 2) "Indirect opposite" or "partial opposite". There are two kinds of opposite: དངོས་འགལ་ "direct / complete opposite" and བརྒྱུད་རྒྱུ་ "indirect / partial opposite". E.g., pillars and vases are "partial opposites".
འགྲེང་བ་
Transliteration: 'greng ba
<verb> v.i. འགྲེངས་པ་/ འགྲེང་བ་/ འགྲེང་བ་/ འགྲེངས་/. Transitive form is སྒྲེང་བ་ q.v. 1) "To get up" including "to stand", "to come up", "be raised". E.g., [TC] དམའ་ས་ནས་ཡར་འགྲེང་བ། "raised to a higher place"; གློ་བུར་འགྲེང་བ། "suddenly arose / came up"; དམག་མི་རྣམས་རུ་བསྒྲིགས་སུ་འགྲེངས་ནས་བསྡད་འདུག། "the soldiers have gotten into formation and are standing there". 2) Translation of the San…
འགྲིལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gril ba
I. <verb> v.i. འགྲིལ་བ་/ འགྲིལ་བ་/ འགྲིལ་བ་//. Transitive form is སྒྲིལ་བ་ q.v. 1) "To become concentrated up into one place" with the connotation of "wrapping or rolling up into one". E.g., [TC] ནང་དོན་རྡོག་འགྲིལ་བ། "to wrap up the meaning and give it in one pithy statement"; ཤོག་རིལ་བཤིག་ནས་བརྐྱངས་པ་རང་ཤུགས་ཀྱིས་རིལ་བོར་འགྲིལ་སོང་། "the roll of paper that was stretched out flat rolled its…
འགྱེལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'gyel ba
<verb> v.i. འགྱེལ་བ་/ འགྱེལ་བ་/ འགྱེལ་བ་//. Transitive form is སྒྱེལ་བ་ q.v. "To fall down" in the sense "to tumble down", "to topple over", and also "to collapsed". E.g., [TC] ཤིང་སྡོང་བཅད་ནས་ས་ལ་འགྱེལ་འདུག "the tree was cut and has toppled to the ground"; མི་ཤི་རྟ་འགྱེལ། "the man dies, the horse collapses"; རྐང་པ་རྡོ་ལ་ཐོགས་ཏེ་འགྱེལ་བ། "stumbled on a stone and fell" or "his foot hit a sto…
འགྱུར་བ་
Transliteration: 'gyur ba
Transitive form is སྒྱུར་བ་ q.v.
I. <verb> v.i. འགྱུར་བ་/ འགྱུར་བ་/ འགྱུར་བ་//. "To change from one state to another" in general sense of flux. Hence "to change", "to become". E.g., [TC] ངོ་བོ་འགྱུར་བ། "to change identity" / "to change from being one thing to another thing"; ཆ་རྐྱེན་འགྱུར་སོང་། "changed into conducive conditions (for something to happen)"; གོ་ས་འགྱུར་ཡང་རུང་མ་འགྱུར་ཡང་རུང་། …
འགྱིང་བ་
Transliteration: 'gying ba
<verb> v.i. འགྱིངས་པ་/ འགྱིང་བ་/ འགྱིང་བ་/ འགྱིངས་/. Transitive form is བསྒྱིངས་པ་ q.v. This verb has the general sense of a being གཟི་བརྗིད་བསྟན་པ་ showing their magnificence / brilliance through the way that they move and hold their body. It is sometimes translated as "to strike a pose" but Tibetans say that it specifically refers not to a static "pose" that is taken but to the general ap…
འགྲུལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'grul ba
<verb> v.i. འགྲུལ་བ་/ འགྲུལ་བ་/ འགྲུལ་བ་//. Meaning "to pass" through or along a road of any kind. Hence also "to travel through / along" "to journey", "to have passage", "to make one's way through". E.g., [TC] རྒྱ་ལམ་དུ་འགྲུལ་པ་འགྲུལ་བ། "the traveller passed along the road to China"; ཁྲོམ་སྲང་ཡངས་པོར་རླངས་འཁོར་འགྲུལ་བ། "the stream train passed through the wide village street"; ནགས་གསེབ་ཏུ་…
འགྲོལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'grol ba
<verb> v.t. བཀྲོལ་བ་/ འགྲོལ་བ་/ དགྲོལ་བ་/ ཁྲོལ་/. Intransitive form is གྲོལ་བ་ q.v. Also see the related སྒྲོལ་བ་. 1) "To release", "to set loose", "to undo / untie", "to liberate". E.g., [TC] མདུད་པ་འགྲོལ་བ། "to untie / undo a knot"; སྒྲོག་གུ་བཀྲོལ་བ། "undid / loosed the strap"; བཅིངས་པ་དགྲོལ་བ། "will release the bindings"; བཙོན་པ་འགྲོལ་བ། "to release / set free a prisoner". 2) "To unravel…
འགྲེལ་བ་
Transliteration: 'grel ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཀྲལ་བ་/ འགྲེལ་བ་/ དགྲོལ་བ་/ ཁྲོལ་/. Acc. [LGK] the བརྡ་རྙིང་ old sign འགྲོལ་བ་ q.v. was revised after the first revision to this term འགྲེལ་བ་. The basic meaning is "to lay out some subject either so that the meaning is made clear or it is easy to understand". Hence "to comment on", "to elucidate", "to lay out". The verb is related to འགྲོལ་བ་ so also has the sense, "to unra…