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གླ་རྩི་
Transliteration: gla rtsi
<noun> "Musk". The aromatic substance obtained from the genitalia of the male musk deer.
གླ་བ་
Transliteration: gla ba
I. <verb> v.t. གླས་པ་/ གླ་བ་ / གླ་བ་ / གློས་/. To pay money to obtain the use of something. Hence "to hire", "to rent", "to pay a fee" for the temporary use of something. E.g., རྟ་དྲེལ་གླ་བ། "to hire pack animals"; སྡོད་ཁང་གླ་བ། "to rent a house".
II. <noun> 1) "The musk deer". E.g., གླ་ལྤགས་ "the skin of a musk deer"; གླ་རྩི་ "musk". 2) The name of a type of tree or wood.
རྩི་
Transliteration: rtsi
I. <verb> present form of རྩི་བ་ q.v. See entries beginning with བརྩིས་, རྩི་, and རྩིས་ for terms having the sense of calculation, counting, reckoning, planning, scheming, and so on. These terms all are derived from the verb and are not the same as the meaning below.
II. <noun> 1) A general term that is usually joined to other terms to give the idea of a substance that provides colour…
རྩི་བ་
Transliteration: rtsi ba
<verb> v.t. བརྩིས་པ་/ རྩི་བ་/ བརྩི་བ་/ རྩིས་/. 1) To obtain the value of something by calculation. Hence, "to calculate", "to compute", "to reckon", "to obtain the value". E.g., to reckon the stars in astrological calculations. E.g., [TC] བྱུང་སོང་བརྩི་བ། "to calculate how much came and went"; ཞིང་གའི་རྒྱ་ཁྱོན་ཞིབ་ཚགས་སུ་བརྩིས་པ། "to measure precisely the area of the field". 2) "To consider…
ཤ་རྩི་
Transliteration: sha rtsi
<noun> 1) "Skin colouration", "skin-tone". 2) [Kham][Dialect] "Sympathy with" or "empathy for" another who is seen as close, of the same family, race, group etc. E.g., [MDR] དམྱལ་བ་ཚ་གྲང་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཤ་རྩི། "for the sufferers of the heat and cold of the hells, I feel sympathy".
གླ་
Transliteration: gla
I. <verb> Part of གླ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> The wage required for doing some kind of work. See also གླ་རྔན་ "wages and remuneration". 1) The cost of doing something; "wage", "salary", "pay". 2) The fee for something; e.g., ཁང་གླ་ "rent" for a house, the "rental". 3) The cost of shipping something e.g., the "freight fee" or "freight charge" and also the "fare" for going somewhere, e.g. a ta…
ནག་རྩི་
Transliteration: nag rtsi
<noun> "Black paint" in general. E.g., the black paint that was put around the border of doors and windows in old Tibet.
རྩི་མར་
Transliteration: rtsi mar
<noun> "Vegetable fat". A general name for oil expressed from plants or vegetables and used for various purposes, flax oil. The name མར་ indicates that this can be in the oil or solid form. It can be used in medicine as an unguent and can also be used for other purposes, e.g., for oil lamps. See also འབྲུ་མར་ q.v.
སོ་རྩི་
Transliteration: so rtsi
<phrase> 1) Tooth powder, being a compound of various powders thought to benefit the teeth and gums so that they stay healthy and strong for a long time. These days most people do not use tooth powder but tooth paste for the purpose. 2) A type of torma; acc. [TC] ཏམ་བུ་ལའི་གཏོར་མ།.