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རྔམ་
Transliteration: rngam
I. <verb> Present part of རྔམ་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) "Resplendence / brilliance" of a person or animal. Someone who gives an awesome impression. 2) "Strong wanting, desire for".

གཟི་རྔམ་
Transliteration: gzi rngam
<phrase> Indicates something or someone that has both གཟི་བརྗིད་ and ཟིལ་ཤུགས་ i.e., something or someone who is not only splendid but also has dominance over others. E.g., [TC] སེང་གེས་གཅན་གཟན་དང་རི་དྭགས་གཞན་ལ་གཟི་རྔམ་སྟོན་པ། "The lion shows its majesty and might to other animals, beasts and herbivores alike".

རྔམ་པ་
Transliteration: rngam pa
<verb> v.i. བརྔམས་པ་/ རྔམ་པ་/ བརྔམ་པ་//. Meaning "to be very excited about something, either wanting it or being upset at it". 1) Wanting in the sense of to hear or know of something and be very excited about getting it or meeting it. E.g., someone hears that a certain performer is coming who they really want to see. The person is at work so they ask the manager if they can be excused to go…

བརྗིད་པ་
Transliteration: brjid pa
<verb> v.i. བརྗིད་པ་/ བརྗིད་པ་/ བརྗིད་པ་//. "To have splendour" i.e., རྔམ་པ་ q.v. "To be dignified", "to be majestic", "to be resplendent" are also appropriate on context. The Tibetan definition acc. [TC] is རྔམ་པོའམ་མཛེས་པོར་གྱུར་པ།. E.g., [TC] ཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས་བརྗིད་པ། "resplendent / splendorous with good qualities"; མཚན་སྙན་གྱིས་བརྗིད་པ། "his name was magnificent to the ear"; རྣམ་འགྱུར་བརྗིད་…

རྒྱལ་ཕྲན་བཅུ་གཉིས་
Transliteration: rgyal phran bcu gnyis
<enum> "Twelve Minor Kingdoms". [HNL] gives: "When human beings eventually settled in Tibet, the country was divided into twelve kingdoms, namely, མཆོམས་ཡུལ་གྲུ་ཤུལ་ ruled by མཆོམས་རྗེ་གུ་ཡོད་, ཞང་ཞུང་ ruled by the king ལིག་སྙར་ཤུར་, མྱང་དོ་ཕྱོང་དཀར་ ruled by གཙང་རྗེ་ཐོད་དཀར་, གནོབས་ཡུལ་གླིང་དགུ་ ruled by the king གནོབས་རྗེ་དམིགས་པ་, ཉང་རོ་ཤམ་བོད་ ruled by the king རྔམ་རྗེ་འབྲོམ་, གྱི་རི་ལྗ…

རྔ་
Transliteration: rnga
<noun> Any kind of "drum" for making sound.