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ཡེང་བ་
Transliteration: yeng ba
<verb> v.i. ཡེངས་པ་/ ཡེང་བ་/ ཡེང་བ་//. "To be distracted to", "to wander to", "to rove to" with the meaning that mind does not stay fresh and on the spot but loses its power of alertness and wanders off to some other subject. This is similar to གཡེང་བ་ but that means being with some distraction, having gotten involved and being occupied with some distraction, whereas this term means just th…

བསིལ་བ་
Transliteration: bsil ba
I. <verb> Past of v.t. form II གསིལ་བ་ q.v.
II. <verb> Altern. way of writing fut. of གསིལ་བ་ q.v.
III. <verb> v.t. བསིལ་བ་/ བསིལ་བ་/ བསིལ་བ་/ བསིལ་/. This verb is usually used in an honorific sense; all the examples below are in the honorific form. It has the basic meaning of removing something, especially from the surface of something. 1) Meaning འཁྲུད་པ་ "to wash off the outer …

བགྲོ་བ་
Transliteration: bgro ba
I. <verb> v.i. བགྲོས་པ་/ བགྲོ་བ་/ བགྲོ་བ་/ བགྲོས་/. Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, གླེང་བ་ "to discuss". It means "to compare understandings / examine the meaning of something in a back and forth process of discussion". Hence, "to confer", "to deliberate (together)", "to discuss", "to consult with".…

གཏར་བ་
Transliteration: gtar ba
I. <verb> v.t. གཏར་བ་/ གཏར་བ་/ གཏར་བ་/ གཏོར་/. Meaning "to bleed" blood medically using a lancet hence "to bleed", "to blood-let" or "to let blood". E.g., [TC] ཁྲག་གཏར་མཁན་སྨན་པ་ཞིག་གིས་ནད་པའི་མགོ་ལ་ཁྲག་གཏར་སོང་། "a blood-letting doctor let blood from the head of the patient".
II. <noun> "Bleeding", "blood-letting". Blood-letting is one of the three "harsh treatments" contained in Tibe…

དཔྱོང་བ་
Transliteration: dpyong ba
<verb> v.t. དཔྱངས་པ་/ དཔྱོང་བ་/ དཔྱང་བ་/ དཔྱོངས་/. Intransitive form is འཕྱང་བ་ q.v. "To hang up", "to suspend" so that something like a banner, etc., hangs or dangles down. E.g., [TC] གདུང་རྒྱན་དུ་དཔྱངས་པའི་དྲ་བ་དྲ་ཕྱེད་རྣམས་མཛེས་པོ་འདུག "the drawa dracheys hung as roof beam ornaments are very attractive"; ཐག་པ་གཅིག་འཕྲེད་དུ་དཔྱངས་པ། "it was hung (vertically) with one string".

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…