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སྒོག་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: sgog skya
<noun> "White garlic". The very pale whitish variety of the plant སྒོག་པ་ garlic q.v. for more. This is the common, white garlic grown domestically for various purposes.

དཀར་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: dkar skya
<noun> The colour either "grey" that comes from mixing the colour white with black. It can be any level of grey from dark to light, i.e., the སྐྱ་ in this case does not mean pale, it simply means the grey form of the colour white; for comparison see also དམར་སྐྱ་ pink.

སྐྱ་རིས་
Transliteration: skya ris
<noun> 1) "Sketch" meaning a very quickly executed drawing. 2) An outline or drawing done with pencil, etc. In Tibet, where there were no pencils, this was usually done with charcoal.

སྤུན་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: spun skya
<noun> 1) "Relative", "relation", "kin", "family". The most general term used for humans who belong to the same family whether by birth or by other relationship. It includes both blood-relations and marital relations: brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, wives, husbands, and in-laws, or anyone else who is part of and considered to be part of a family are all སྤུན་སྐྱ…

ལྗང་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: ljang skya
<noun> 1) Generally, the colour that results from mixing green with white. Hence "whitish-blue", "pale blue", "light blue". Like སྔོ་དཀར་ but a little different, q.v. 2) Specifically, the colour that comes from mixing སྤང་ verdigris with white.