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འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: 'bru sna lnga
<phrase> "Five grains" meaning the five specific types of grain.
I. Acc. [JKK] vol. kha p. 248: 1) ཏིལ་ "sesame"; 2) ནས་སོ་བ་ "unhusked barley"; 3) མ་ཤ་ "white beans"; 4) འབྲས་སོ་བ་ "unhusked rice"; and 5) གྲོ་ "wheat". In another formulation, མོན་སྲན་གྲེའུ་ "beans from Bhutan" are given instead of མ་ཤ་ but the meaning is the same; a kind of white bean.
II. Acc. [TC] there are two formulation…
སོ་བ་
Transliteration: so ba
<noun> 1) [Dialect] meaning སོ་པ་ q.v. 2) Name of a type of grain. [SCD] gives: "unhusked paddy or grain"; acc. to Jä. coarse, thick-shelled barley". One of the བསྲེག་རྫས་བཅུ་ ten substances for burning in fire pūja. It is sometimes counted as one of the འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་ five grains q.v. 3) Any kind of grain that has its external husk, e.g., འབྲས་སོ་བ་ "rice with its husk (and not "husked rice" …
ཏིལ་
Transliteration: til
<noun> 1) "Sesamum", "sesame seed". Translit. of the Sanskrit "til" meaning "sesamum seed". One of the བསྲེག་རྫས་བཅུ་ ten substances for burning in fire pūja. It is sometimes counted as one of the འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་ five grains q.v. 2) Note that in Indian and Nepalese cultures since ancient times, this word has also been used alone to mean ཏིལ་སྣུམ་ "sesame oil" or even just "oil made from seeds i…
འབྲས་
Transliteration: 'bras
<noun> 1) Abbrev. of འབྲས་བུ་ q.v. 2) Translation of the Sanskrit "salu". The plant and its grain called "rice". Rice is one of the བསྲེག་རྫས་བཅུ་ ten substances for burning in fire pūja. It is sometimes counted as one of the འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་ five grains q.v. 3) "Tumour" or "lump". Tibetan name for a certain type of flesh-based tumour / lump e.g., གཉན་འབྲས་ "Nyen tumour" q.v. The name is derived…
འབྲུ་སྣ་
Transliteration: 'bru sna
<phrase> "Various (types of) grain); abbrev. of འབྲུ་རིགས་སྣ་ཚོགས་.
ནས་
Transliteration: nas
I. <noun> The grain, "barley". 1) i) One of the བསྲེག་རྫས་བཅུ་ ten substances for burning in fire pūja. ii) One of the འབྲུ་སྣ་ལྔ་ five grains q.v. 2) "Barley grain". A small unit of measure. i) In some systems, seven grains (in general) are equal to one སོར་མོ་ fingerwidth which is also equal to one ཆ་ཆུང་ smaller proportion. ii) In other systems, such as in thangkha painting, eight barley…
འབྲུ་སྣོན་
Transliteration: 'bru snon
<phrase> 1) "Augmenting / added / supplementary words"; words that have been added to augment others. 2) "Topping up the grains". Refilling the containers holding grain for eating.
འབྲུ་
Transliteration: 'bru
I. <verb> See འབྲུ་བ་.
II. <noun> 1) "Grain". A general name for "grain" i.e., wheat, barley, rice, etc. 2) i) A particle of something, a single piece or "bit" of something larger, a single "component" of something, an "element" of something, or a single "member" of a grouping. E.g., a grain of wheat. Note that this term is quite generic and can be mixed with the name of any compound t…
འབྲུ་ལྷག་
Transliteration: 'bru lhag
<phrase> "Excess grain". The grain remaining after the grain harvest has had the necessary amounts for food, seed, etc., removed. The excess grain can be sold, etc.
འབྲུ་སོག་
Transliteration: 'bru sog
<noun> "Grain stalk". Abbrev. of འབྲུའི་སོག་མ་. The stalks that are left over when harvested grain has the grain itself separated from the grass stalks. See སོག་མ་ for more q.v.
སེར་སྣ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: ser sna lnga
<phrase> "The five types of miserliness / avarice". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "pañca mātsayīṇi". Acc. [NDS] they are: 1) ཆོས་ལ་སེར་སྣ་ "miserliness with regard to the dharma"; 2) རྙེད་པ་ལ་སེར་སྣ་ "miserliness with regard to gain"; 3) གནས་པ་ལ་སེར་སྣ་ "miserliness with regard to dwelling places"; 4) དགེ་བ་ལ་སེར་སྣ་ "miserliness with regard to virtue"; 5) རིགས་ལ་སེར་སྣ་ "miserliness wi…