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རྟུལ་བ་
Transliteration: rtul ba
I. <verb> v.t. བརྟུལ་བ་/ རྟུལ་བ་/ བརྟུལ་བ་/ རྟུལ་/. 1) Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, བསྡུས་པ་ with meaning as follows. It has several connotations such as "to conclude by bringing things together and simplifying", "to wind things up", "to reign in", "to draw things that are long-winded into a point". E.g., བ…
བརྟུལ་བ་
Transliteration: brtul ba
I. <verb> Past and fut. of རྟུལ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) That which is tamed, disciplined. 2) A certain style of conduct which is a type of discipline, that results in being disciplined. E.g., in བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ "yogic discipline".
རྣོ་བ་
Transliteration: rno ba
<adj> The comparative form of རྣོ་པོ་ and the opp. of རྟུལ་བ་. "Sharper" / "more sharp", "keener" / "more keen". Meaning that which is sharper, more capable of penetrating. 1) Used in relation to knives and other sharp tools. 2) Used in relation to mental acumen in which case it is "very acute", "very sharp", "more acute", "sharper", "keener".
འཛངས་པ་
Transliteration: 'dzangs pa
[Old] The complete entry from [DSM] is as follows.
I. <adj> Used to mean དཔའ་བ་ and ཡ་རབས་ and the like. The text བརྡ་ཡིག་བློ་གསལ་མགྲིན་རྒྱན་ says: "འཛངས་པ་ is used to mean དཔའ་བ་ or རྟུལ་ཕོད་པ་; it also has been used for མས་འཕུལ་དུ་བྱས་པ་." For example, from a history text chronicling the appearance of rulers that was uncovered in the Tun Huang repository "བློན་ཆེན་བགྱིས་པའི་རབས་ལ། གནའ་ཐོག་…
རྟུལ་ཕོད་
Transliteration: rtul phod
<adj> [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, སྙིང་སྟོབས་ཆེ་བ་ i.e., very strong determination, the "courage / fortitude" to do something. 1) The actual meaning is as follows: the term refers to the deep strength / determination to do something to a perceived enemy, whatever it takes. E.g., bullies, toughs, hood…
རྟུལ་པོ་
Transliteration: rtul po
<adj> That which is "dull", "blunt", not sharp, not acute. The opp. of རྣོ་པོ་ q.v. Meaning that which is not sharp and which cannot easily penetrate or cut into. 1) Used in relation to knives and other sharp tools. 2) Used in relation to mental acumen. E.g., མི་དབང་པོ་རྟུལ་པོ་, "a person of dull faculties", someone who has poor or weak mental acumen.
རྣོ་རྟུལ་
Transliteration: rno rtul
<adj> 1) Combined term meaning the degree of "sharpness / bluntness" of a physical object such as a knife or of the acumen of the mind. 2) As an abbrev. meaning "sharp and blunt" for things or "sharp and dull" for mental acumen.
རུལ་བ་
Transliteration: rul ba
I. <verb> v.i. རུལ་བ་/ རུལ་བ་/ རུལ་བ་//. One of three verbs used to indicate that something is decomposing, going bad. The other two are མྱག་པ་ and བམ་པ་ q.v. This verb has the sense that something is off, no good any longer. It is freq. but not only used with foods and other things that need to be fresh for use. It indicates something that is no longer fresh and good but has gone bad. Henc…
རྔུལ་བ་
Transliteration: rngul ba
<verb> v.i. རྔུལ་བ་/ རྔུལ་བ་/ རྔུལ་བ་//. For the body "to sweat / perspire". E.g., [TC] ངལ་དུབ་ཀྱིས་ལུས་རྔུལ་བ། "the body perspired due to exertion".
རྟོལ་བ་
Transliteration: rtol ba
I. <verb> v.t. བརྟོལ་བ་/ རྟོལ་བ་/ བརྟོལ་བ་/ རྟོལ་/. "To pierce" or "to puncture". This has the sense of "boring into" and also "opening up / releasing / exposing". E.g., རྣག་ཁྲག་རྟོལ་བ། "to puncture and release the pus and blood"; བུག་པ་བརྟོལ་བ། "bored / punctured / pierced a hole". When faults that are a person has but is not mentioning or is holding back are extracted by questioning etc.,…