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ཆུ་ཡུར་
Transliteration: chu yur
<noun> An "irrigation canal / channel / ditch" i.e., any kind of canal or channel made for carrying water to fields or other places, e.g, a gutter.
ཡུར་ཆུ་
Transliteration: yur chu
<noun> Literally water that has been carried in a ཡུར་བ་ channel dug or made for the purpose. In old Tibet, it usually referred to "irrigation water", "water for irrigation" that has been brought to the fields by a ཆུ་རྐ་ or channel / ditch dug for the purpose. However, it can mean water carried through an aqueduct, etc., for whatever purpose.
ཆུ་ཡུར་རྐང་ཆག་པ་ལ་ཝ་འཛུགས་པ་ལྟར་
Transliteration: chu yur rkang chag pa la wa 'dzugs pa ltar
<phrase> "Like attaching a diversion to a broken water main". In this example, ཆུ་ཡུར་ refers to a main water channel of some kind whose རྐང་ channel has become broken in some way that prevents water from travelling down it. By attaching a ཝ་ new, smaller channel to it, the water and does now immediately flow down the diversion.
སུབ་པ་
Transliteration: sub pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསུབས་པ་/ སུབ་པ་/ བསུབ་པ་/ སུབས་/. 1) "To rub out", "to erase", "to wipe out". E.g., ཡི་གེ་སུབ་པ། "to rub out the writing". E.g., [TC] རྐང་རྗེས་ལག་བསུབ། "to wipe out one's previous good works"; རི་མོ་བསུབ་པ། "to erase the drawing"; བྱས་རྗེས་རྣམས་མི་མངོན་པར་བསུབས་སོང་། "the achievements were completely wiped out". 2) To remove something so that it ceases to be, i.e., "to eradi…
འབྲུ་བ་
Transliteration: 'bru ba
<verb> v.t. བྲུས་པ་/ འབྲུ་བ་/ འབྲུ་བ་/ བྲུས་/. Similar to འདྲུ་བ་. An alter. spelling is འབྲུད་པ་. The basic meaning to dig something out of something else, either for the purpose of obtaining the thing or making an excavation.
1) Same as འདྲུ་བ་ and འབྲུད་པ་ meaning to scoop something out of something else in reference to matter such as wood, earth, water. This will have a variety of transl…
འཁྲིད་པ་
Transliteration: 'khrid pa
I. <verb> v.t. ཁྲིད་པ་/ འཁྲིད་པ་/ འཁྲིད་པ་/ ཁྲིད་/. Used principally for animate beings. 1) "To take along and lead the way for" hence "to guide", "to conduct", "to lead", "to show to", "to channel / funnel water". It also has the sense of "drawing along". It also has the sense "to escort" in the sense of leading along but not in the other sense of escort, སྐྱེལ་མ་ in which one provides pro…
ཆུ་རྐ་
Transliteration: chu rka
<noun> A channel made for water to flow through and ultimately be obtained. One kind of ཡུར་བ་ q.v. E.g., [TC] ཞིང་གའི་བར་མཚམས་སུ་ཆུ་རྐ་བཟོས་པ། "made ditches for water at the borders of the fields"; རི་ལ་ཆུ་རྐ་གཏོད་པ། "to set up water diversion channels / aqueducts in the mountains".
ཡུར་བ་
Transliteration: yur ba
I. <verb> v.i. ཡུར་བ་/ ཡུར་བ་/ ཡུར་བ་//. The verb lit. means "to go into the channel or tunnel" and is applied to sleep; "to go to sleep" or "to fall asleep". E.g., [TC] གཉིད་ལ་ཡུར་བ། "went to sleep"; ཕྲུ་གུ་གཉིད་ཡུར་དུ་འཇུག་པ། "put the child to sleep".
II. <noun> Any kind of channel that has been dug / made in order to carry water to and fro. Hence "ditch", "canal", drain", "trench", …
ཨ་ཡུར་
Transliteration: aa yur
<noun> Translit. of the Sanskrit "ayur". Translated into Tibetan with ཚེ་ meaning "life".
ཆུ་
Transliteration: chu
I. <noun> "Water". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "apaḥ". Meaning the principle of "wetness" and "moisture". 1) The substance "water" which is defined as being རླན་ཞིང་གཤེར་བ། "moist and wet". 2) "Water". One of the འབྱུང་བ་བཞི་ four elements and འབྱུང་བ་ལྔ་ five elements. It is the principle of "liquidity". 3) "Water" as "wetness" is one of རེག་བྱ་བཅུ་གཅིག་ "the eleven touchables" q.v. …
ཡུར་བུ་
Transliteration: yur bu
<noun> A small ཡུར་བ་ channel q.v. for carrying water to and fro. In old Tibet, it would usually be the final level of a "ditch", "trench", or the like for carrying water through a farm fields.
ཆུ་ཟུར་
Transliteration: chu zur
<noun> "The edge of a river" or other body of water, "riverside, "banks of a river" or other body of water.
ཆུ་བུར་
Transliteration: chu bur
<noun> 1) "Water bubbles", specifically meaning bubbles on the surface of water; same meaning as ལྦུ་བ་ q.v. 2) "Water-bubbles" are used as one of སྒྱུ་མའི་དཔེ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve analogies of illusion" q.v. 3) "Blisters" that arise on the skin of the body, both those filled with lymph and not. The term ཆུ་ in this case refers to lymph fluid only; it does not refer to pus or blood, etc.