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གཞུ་རིང་

Transliteration: gzhu ring

<phrase> "Long bow". See also གཞུ་ཐུང་ q.v. A long-length bow where གཞུ་ bow refers to 1) bow and arrow or 2) the bow shaped support used at the top of a pillar.

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གཞུ་ཐུང་

Transliteration: gzhu thung

<phrase> "Short bow". See also གཞུ་རིང་ q.v. A short-length bow where གཞུ་ bow refers to 1) bow and arrow or 2) the bow shaped support used at the top of a pillar.

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རྭ་གཞུ་

Transliteration: rva gzhu

<phrase> "Horn bow"; a གཞུ་ bow made of རྭ་ཅོ་ horn.

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གཞུ་རྩ་

Transliteration: gzhu rtsa

<noun> "The Bow Channel". The name of a specific རྩ་ channel in the subtle body of a human, named because it is shaped like a bow.

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གཞུ་

Transliteration: gzhu

I. <verb> Pres. and fut. parts of the verb གཞུ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) A "bow" for firing མདའ་ arrows. 2) "Saggitarius". The name of one of སྐར་ཁྱིམ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ the twelve houses of the zodiac. 3) "Bow" or "capital"; the large, thick chunk of wood that sits on top of the ཀ་བའི་བྲེ་ column of a pillar in Tibetan buildings and which directly supports the ལྕམ་དྲལ་ roof beams. The Tibetan styl…

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རིང་

Transliteration: ring

A basic intertsheg of the language with the general sense of the "long", as in long time, long length, far distance. It is combined with various other མིང་ grammatical names or ཚིག་ཕྲད་ connectors to give words that contain its meaning.

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གཞུ་རྒྱལ་

Transliteration: gzhu rgyal

<noun> [Mngon] "Kings of the bow"; an epithet of ལྷ་མ་ཡིན་ asuras. The name is given in reference to Indra's bow.

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གདུང་རིང་

Transliteration: gdung ring

<phrase> 1) "Long joist / beam". A wooden, ceiling joist for a house that is comparatively long. 2) i) "A long line" meaning a long family line, a long ancestry. ii) A person / family with a long line of descendants.

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གཞུ་བ་

Transliteration: gzhu ba

<verb> v.t. བཞུས་པ་/ གཞུ་བ་/ གཞུ་བ་/ གཞུས་/. 1) Meaning "to toss / hurl / throw" something at something else in order to strike it. This generally has to be translated on context. In many cases it can be translated with the sense "to strike at / hit at / beat" something. E.g., [TC] འགྲམ་ལྕག་བཞུས་པ། "slapped (on the face)"; རྡོ་བཞུས་པ་ "tossed / hurled / threw a stone at..."; རྟ་བཟང་པོར་ལྕག་…

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གཞུ་གང་

Transliteration: gzhu gang

<phrase> "A full bow's length".

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རིང་བ་

Transliteration: ring ba

<adj><adv> Of degree for ཐུང་ཐུང་ q.v. If something is རིང་པོ་ "long", "far", "distant", or "tall" something རིང་བ་ is "longer", "further", "more distant", or "taller". 2) "Longer". One of the eight sub-divisions of དབྱིབས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་བརྒྱད་ visual shape q.v.

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གཞུ་གུ་

Transliteration: gzhu gu

<noun> 1) "Tail" as in the tail of an animal. 2) The "tail-end" or "bottom-most" or lowest or least position.

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ཀ་གཞུ་

Transliteration: ka gzhu

<phrase> "Pillar and bow" or "pillar and capital". Abbrev. of ཀ་བ་ and གཞུ་ meaning the actual pillar and the large, thick, bow-shaped capital which functions as the support for the roof beams. The bow in Tibetan architecture has a particular style. Thus the term does not mean "pillar" and "ornament on top" but means column and structure on top which is a further support for the roof beams.

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