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རྣ་བ་ཀྲོང་ཀྲོང་
Transliteration: rna ba krong krong
<phrase> 1) "Pricking up the ears" in the literal sense of lifting the ears, like a dog, to hear better. 2) "Pricking up the ears" in the sense of showing interest in something.
རྣ་བ་སྲབ་པོ་
Transliteration: rna ba srab po
<adj>phrase> "Gullible" someone who believes in whatever they hear. The Tibetan lit. meaning is very similar to "easy to convince".
རྣ་བ་མེད་པ་
Transliteration: rna ba med pa
<adj>phrase> 1) "Has no ears for... / will not listen to" meaning someone who will not listen to advice, teaching, etc. 2) "Cannot hear" meaning someone whose hearing is impaired (not necessarily deaf).
རྣ་བ་མཁྲེགས་པོ་
Transliteration: rna ba mkhregs po
<adj>phrase> Lit. "dense ears". 1) Equiv. of the English "thick-skinned"; someone who remains unaffected by any and all talk. 2) Equiv. of the English "hard of hearing"; someone one who is deaf or temporarily hard of hearing.
འོན་ལོང་
Transliteration: 'on long
<phrase> Abbrev. of རྣ་བ་འོན་པ་ and མིག་ལོང་བ་ i.e., "deaf and dumb".
རྣ་བ་
Transliteration: rna ba
I. <noun> "The ear". Translation of the Sanskrit [NDS] "śhrotra". [Hon] is སྙན་ q.v.
A. The ears are among the orifices of the human body. 1) The ears are two of the བུ་ག་སྒོ་དགུ་ nine general orifices of the human body q.v. 2) The ears are one of རྣམ་ཤེས་འཕོ་བའི་བུ་ག་དགུ་ the nine orifices of the human body via which the consciousness exits at the time of death.
B. The physical ears are part…
རྣ་རུ་
Transliteration: rna ru
<noun> 1) Altern. spelling for ན་རོ་ q.v. The spelling is used because the shape of the ན་རོ་ mark is like the horns of a རྣ་བ་ sheep (see next meaning). 2) "Horn(s) of a Na" meaning the horns of the sheep called a རྣ་བ་ or གནའ་བ་ Nawa. 3) [Old] Acc. [ULS] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs་འཁྲིག་པ་ with the meaning "copulat…
སུན་པ་
Transliteration: sun pa
<verb> v.i. སུན་པ་/ སུན་པ་/ སུན་པ་//. Meaning for the mind "to become irritated" by something that is being bothersome. Hence "to be irritated / annoyed" and in some cases "to be tired of / fed up with" something. E.g., [TC] ཡིད་སུན་པ། "irritating / bothering (to the mind)"; འུར་ཟིང་གིས་སུན་པ། "bothered by the chatter"; རྣ་བ་སུན་པ། "annoying to hear / irritating to the ear, bothering to the…
བླག་པ་
Transliteration: blag pa
<verb> v.t. བླགས་པ་/ བླག་པ་/ བླག་པ་/ བློགས་/. 1) "To give ear to", i.e., "to lend an ear to", "to turn one's hearing attention to something being said and listen to it" hence also "to take notice", "to pay attention". E.g., [TC] མང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བསམ་འཆར་ལ་རྣ་བ་བླགས་ཏེ་ཉན། "to give one's attention and listen to the plans of the people [Communist]"; བསླབ་བྱ་བཟང་པོར་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་རྣ་བ་བློགས། "lend your…
སྙན་
Transliteration: snyan
I. <noun> "Ear". The [Hon] for རྣ་བ་ q.v. With this meaning, it is used in conjunction with a variety of other words to give the sense of something heard.
II. <adj> "Aural" e.g., སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ "aural lineage"; a lineage of teaching which is passed on only by one person saying it to one other.
III. Sometimes used in corrupted forms of ཀྲིཥྞ་སཱ་ར་ q.v.
འོན་པ་
Transliteration: 'on pa
I. <verb> v.i. འོན་པ་/ འོན་པ་/ འོན་པ་//. "To be deaf", "to be unable to hear", and also "to become deaf" and "to be deafened" by a loud noise. E.g., [TC] མེ་སྒྱོགས་ཀྱི་སྒྲས་རྣ་བ་འོན་པ། "deafened by the sound of the cannons".
II. <noun><adj> Cognate to the verb "deaf". E.g., མི་འོན་པ་ "a deaf person" and "the deaf".
III. [Old] "to hold (up) and show". E.g., [TC] བུམ་པ་འོན་གྱིས། "ho…