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གཡང་དཀར་
Transliteration: g-yang dkar
<noun> [Mngon] "White wealth" an epithet for ལུག་ "sheep". E.g., [CSG] regarding the vajra chains: གཡང་དཀར་ལྟར་ལུག་གུ་འཚོ་བས་རྫི་བོ་བཞིན། "via the lamb-chains like white wealth and just like a shepherd would do..."

ཕྲུ་གུ་
Transliteration: phru gu
<noun> The "young" of humans or animals and note that it is not a specific term for the young of any given species. E.g., it could be and often is translated as "child" or "children" for humans but also corresponds to the whole variety of terms used for the young of animals e.g., "the fledgeling" or "young" of birds, the "kids" of goats, "the lambs" of sheep, etc. Note that the more specifi…

ལུག་པ་
Transliteration: lug pa
I. <verb> v.t. ལུགས་པ་/ ལུག་པ་/ ལུག་པ་/ ལུགས་/. 1) "To cast" a statue or similar thing by pouring the casting material into the mould. E.g., [TC] ཟངས་བཞུས་ཏེ་གཟུགས་བརྙན་ལུག་པ། "melted the copper then cast the image". 2) "To pour inside" and "to put inside". E.g., [TC] དཀར་ཡོལ་ནང་ལ་ཇ་ལུག་པ། "to pour tea into a cup".
II. <verb> v.i. ལུག་པ་/ ལུག་པ་/ ལུག་པ་//. "To fall down and collapse" o…

ལུག་ཤ་
Transliteration: lug sha
<noun> "Mutton"; the meat of flesh of a sheep.

གུ་
Transliteration: gu
1) Inside, in the place of. 2) The extensiveness of, the extent of, the area of e.g., in གུ་ཡངས་པོ་. 3) A suffix added to names meaning a smaller variety of that thing e.g., ཁྱི་གུ་ "small dog". 4) [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was an older term revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions. It says: "གུ་ in such as གྱུར་ཅིག་གུ་ is a word that indicates སྨོན་པ་ the preceding is aspirational, a …

ལྡེ་གུ་
Transliteration: lde gu
<noun> 1) "Gruel". A name for gruel made of grain flour of any type boiled in water; like porridge though runnier. 2) A general name for thick soup. 3) "Scented water". Water that has had aromatic substances, such as the powders used to make incense, steeped in it.