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གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ་
Transliteration: gar gyi nyams dgu
<phrase> "The nine moods of dance". This means the nine ཉམས་ modes of expression or moods of a wrathful or semi-wrathful deity such as an ཁྲག་ཐུང་ heruka q.v. [DGT] gives as: 1) སྒེག་པ་ "charm"; 2) དཔའ་བ་ "bravery"; 3) མི་སྡུག་པ་ "unpleasant"; 4) དྲག་ཤུལ་ "savage"; 5) བཞད་གད་ "laughter"; 6) འཇིགས་རུང་ "fearsome"; 7) སྙིང་རྗེ་ "compassionate"; 8) རྔམས་པ་ "awesome"; 9) ཞི་བ་ "peaceful".
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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…

རྔན་པ་
Transliteration: rngan pa
I. <verb> v.t. བརྔན་པ་/ རྔན་པ་/ བརྔན་པ་/ རྔོན་/. "To give money or goods to obtain a service not otherwise available" i.e., "to bribe". E.g., [TC] རྒྱུ་ནོར་གྱིས་བརྔན་པ། "bribed with valuables".
II. <noun> 1) An offering made in return for pleasing service, etc. Hence "remuneration", "reward", "gift", "present". E.g., [TC] ཁྱོད་བློན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རྔན་པ་ལ། འདོད་ཡོན་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་གང་དགོས་སྟེར།…

རྔབ་པ་
Transliteration: rngab pa
<verb> v.i. བརྔབས་པ་/ རྔབ་པ་/ བརྔབ་པ་//. 1) "To be hungry". E.g., [TC] གྲོད་པ་རྔབ་པ། lit. "the stomach craved food" i.e., "to be hungry". 2) "To hunger for, to crave some kind of food or drink". E.g., [TC] ཟས་ལ་རྔབ་པ། "to crave food"; ཆང་ལ་རྔབ་པ། "to crave drink".

རྔུབ་པ་
Transliteration: rngub pa
I. <verb> v.t. བརྔུབས་པ་/ རྔུབ་པ་/ བརྔུབ་པ་/ རྔུབས་/. Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, འདུས་པ་ or འཇུག་པ་ lit. "to take in", but with meaning as follows. It means "to inhale / to inspire" in reference to the act of breathing. This can either mean 1) in general "to breathe in" or 2) specifically "to ta…

རྔོད་པ་
Transliteration: rngod pa
I. <verb> v.t. བརྔོས་པ་/ རྔོད་པ་/ བརྔོད་པ་/ རྔོས་/. Same meaning as རྔོ་བ་ q.v. E.g., [TC] ནས་བརྔོས་ཏེ་རྩམ་པ་འཐག "the barley was parched then ground into tsampa".
II. <verb> v.t. altern. བརྔོད་པ་/ རྔོད་པ་/ བརྔོད་པ་/ རྔོད་/. "To deceive / delude". E.g., [TC] ཐབས་མཁས་ཀྱིས་དགྲ་བོ་བརྔོད། "they cleverly deceived the enemy".

རྔོན་པ་
Transliteration: rngon pa
I. <verb> v.t. བརྔོན་པ་/ རྔོན་པ་/ བརྔོན་པ་/ རྔོན་/. "To hunt and kill" game animals such as deer, and so on. E.g., [TC] རི་ལ་རི་དྭགས་རྔོན་པ་དང་། ཆུ་ལ་ཉ་མོ་འཛིན་པ། "hunting game in the mountains and catching fish in the rivers".
II. <noun> 1) "A hunter". 2) A master of ceremonies at Tibetan performances who comes out prior to the main show.