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ཁེར་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: kher rkyang
I. <adj> 1) "Single" glossed in Tibetan usually as གཅིག་པུ་ q.v. The term "individual" could also be used but that is closer in meaning to སོ་སོ་. 2) "Solitary", "alone", "isolated (in the particular sense of one, isolated thing)"; glossed in Tibetan usually as ཆིག་རྐྱང་ one thing, by itself with nothing else. E.g., [TC] ཁང་པ་ཁེར་རྐྱང་། "solitary house".
II. <adv> Cognate to the adj. a…
གྱར་བ་
Transliteration: gyar ba
<verb> v.i. གྱར་བ་/ གྱར་བ་/ གྱར་བ་//. 1) "To change / to turn to or into / to become" like འགྱུར་བ་ but used to mean that the situation has turned into one of a particular type. E.g., [TC] ཅི་བྱ་མེད་པའི་གནས་སུ་གྱར་བ། "turned into a situation where nothing could be done (turned hopeless)"; འཁྲུག་ཟིང་གི་གནས་སུ་གྱར་བ། "turned into a situation of discord and fighting"; གྲོགས་མེད་ཁེར་རྐྱང་གི་གནས…
ཁེར་རྐྱ་
Transliteration: kher rkya
<adj> "Alone", "by itself", "isolated (as in one thing by itself)"; glossed usually in Tibetan as ཆིག་རྐྱ་ meaning one thing, all by itself.
རྐྱང་
Transliteration: rkyang
I. <noun> 1) "Kyang". The name of a wild animal that lives on the mountain slopes. It is a member of the horse family and is about the size of a small pony. 2) Abbrev. of རྐྱང་མ་ q.v.
II. <adj> Meaning "all by itself", with nothing else added in or nothing else accompanying it. The context will determine the translation. i) "Bare". In grammar, meaning a name-base consonant that has no …
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…
ཡ་རྐྱང་
Transliteration: ya rkyang
<phrase> "A single piece" meaning "complete by itself and not one part of a set".