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སྐས་ཐེམ་
Transliteration: skas them
<noun> 1) An individual "step" or "stair" in a flight of steps / stairs. 1) An individual "step" or "rung" of a ladder.
ཐེམ་སྐས་
Transliteration: them skas
<noun> "Ladder", "steps", "stairs", "staircase"; the name for anything having a set of steps, stairs, or the like for ascending from below to up above. The specific term for a staircase in a house is སྐས་འཛེག་ q.v.
ལེན་པ་
Transliteration: len pa
I. <verb> v.t. བླངས་པ་/ ལེན་པ་/ བླང་བ་/ ལོངས་/. 1) The full meaning is "to take something from somewhere else so that it is obtained here or brought into this situation". i) It includes the standard verb in English "to take" and its variants with the same meaning—"to grab hold of", "to seize"; e.g., མ་བྱིན་པར་མ་ལོངས་ཤིག "please do not take (for your own use) things which have not been offer…
སྐས་
Transliteration: skas
<noun> Any ladder or stairway or means for going up and coming down. Whereas སྐས་ཀ་ means a discrete ladder or set of steps, སྐས་ by itself refers to the fact of something that allow one to go up and down. E.g., it could be a set of steps cut into a mountain pass; the steps are not a སྐས་ཀ་ but the presence of the steps on the side of the mountain is a སྐས་.
ཐེམ་
Transliteration: them
<noun> 1) Any set of stairs or steps constructed for the purpose of being able to ascend and descend. Thus, "a staircase", "steps", "stairs". 2) In ancient Tibet, a small step on either side of the སྒོའི་ཐེམ་པ་ frame of a door. By having the bottom of the door raised a little in this way, unwanted things are kept out.
ཐེམ་སྤང་
Transliteration: them spang
<noun> "Keep out sign at the threshold". A notice or sign or diagram posted on the outer side of the threshold to a house etc., (usually on the top lintel of the main door frame) for the purpose of keeping out unwanted things e.g., undesirable spirits, and so on.
ཐེམ་ཁ་
Transliteration: them kha
<noun> The upper side of, or the area above, the frame of a door; the part over the upper lintel of a door.
ཐེམ་པ་
Transliteration: them pa
<noun> 1) In reference to the frame of a doorway or window. The སྒོའི་ཐེམ་པ་ is the wooden frame of the doorway, the སྒོའི་ཡ་ཐེམ་ is the upper lintel of the door frame and the སྒོའི་མ་ཐེམ་ is the lower lintel of the door frame (in Asia, a door frame was often a four-sided oblong, with a piece of wood across the bottom, as well.) In the case of a window frame, the མ་ཐེམ་ is the "sill" of the…
སྐས་ཀ་
Transliteration: skas ka
<noun> "Ladder", "staircase", "flight of steps", etc.; any stepped device that allows for ascent and descent.
ཐེམ་ཐོ་
Transliteration: them tho
<noun> In ancient Tibet, this was the sign on the upper lintel of a door frame that gave the official "house registration number" of the house. See ཐེམ་དེབ་ "registry of houses".