THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Results pages 1 of 1:

ཁ་ཟེར་བ་
Transliteration: kha zer ba
<adj><adv> A term that indicates speaking badly in varying degrees about someone or something. Cf. with ཕྱར་ཀ་ which includes the additional sense of fault-finding. 1) To speak badly of someone / something in the general sense of not speaking very nicely about the person / it. "To speak ill of...", "to say bad things about". 2) To speak very badly about someone in order to bring them …
མུ་ཅོར་
Transliteration: mu cor
I. [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, 1) ཁ་ཟེར་བ་ q.v., 2) ཁ་དྲག་ q.v.
II. [Old [TC] gives as 1) རྫུན་ "lying", 2) ཁ་གཏོང་བ་ which is the equivalent of I.1, and 3) སྐད་ཅོར་སྒྲོག་པ་ "being loud-mouthed and insisting on one's own opinion, which is the equivalent of I.2 above.
ཕྱར་ཀ་
Transliteration: phyar ka
<noun> Talk that speaks badly about and finds fault with another person; the kind of talk that is fault-finding negativity. It includes a very wide range of bad talk. The talk can be true or untrue, can be to the person's face or behind their back, can be designed deliberately to ruin the other person as with slander and so on, or can be just general sniping about another's faults. It inclu…
ཟེར་བ་
Transliteration: zer ba
<verb> v.t. ཟེར་བ་/ ཟེར་བ་/ ཟེར་བ་//.
1) "To say", "to speak". E.g., [TC] ཅི་ཟེར་བ་ལ་ཉན། "listen to what is said!"; ཟེར་ཚད་བདེན་མིན། །བཙོ་ཚད་ཤ་མིན།། "whatever is said is not true; whatever is cooked is not meat!"; ལུག་མ་གསོད་བླ་མས་ཟེར། །ཤ་ཁྱེར་ཤོག་བླ་མས་ཟེར།། "the lama said not to kill the sheep; the lama said to bring him meat!".
2) It is used not only as the general verb "to say" as illustr…
ཟེར་
Transliteration: zer
I. <verb> Part of ཟེར་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) "Ray", "beam" of the light or radiation given off by any radiant body. Usually combined with other མིང་ grammatical names to give new words. E.g., འོད་ཟེར་ "light rays/light beams"; ཉི་ཟེར་ "sunrays/sunbeams"; ཟླ་ཟེར་ "moon beams"; ཆུ་ཟེར་ "light rays reflected from water"; ཚ་ཟེར་ "heat rays". 2) Abbrev. of འོད་ཟེར་ e.g., [KCD] མེ་དུད་ཟེར་ "f…
ཁ་བ་
Transliteration: kha ba
I. <verb> v.i. ཁ་བ་/ ཁ་བ་/ ཁ་བ་//. 1) "To give off a scent or smell". E.g., [TC] མེ་ཏོག་གི་དྲི་བསུང་རྒྱང་རིང་དུ་ཁ་བ། "the scent of the flower wafted far". This is sometimes used in the sense that the smell is noticed, but the actual verb for this is མནམ་པ་ and v.t. སྣོམ་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) "Falling snow". This term correctly used refers only to falling snow and its cognate term གངས་ …
ཨ་ཆུ་ཟེར་བ་
Transliteration: aa chu zer ba
<noun> "The Brrr!" Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "hāhādharaḥ". The name of the fifth of the གྲང་བའི་དམྱལ་བ་བརྒྱད་ eight cold hells. It is so cold in this hell that the hell-beings cry out continuously because of the cold. Note that the cry is onomatopoeia and not literal. For instance, in ancient India, people would say "Ha Ha! It's cold!" In Tibet, they literally said "A chu! It's cold…
ཚ་ཟེར་
Transliteration: tsha zer
<noun> "Heat rays", e.g., the heat radiating from or hot rays of the sun. E.g., [TC] ཚ་ཟེར་ཆེ་བའི་འོག་ཏུ་མྱོས་ཤིང་འབོགས་པ། "I was struck and made by the intense heat rays".