ཐ་ཤལ་བ་
Transliteration: tha shal ba
<adj><noun> A derogatory term. Sometimes seen as a mis-spelling of ཐ་ཤལ་པ་ q.v. 1) That which is inferior in the sense of lesser, not as good, of lower kind. This is used also to refer to things which are common / ordinary but it has a strong derogatory sense to it as well e.g., སྣང་བ་ཐ་ཤལ་བ་ does not mean "ordinary appearances" but has the sense of "those inferior appearances that or…
བཤལ་ལ་
Transliteration: bshal la
<noun> [Khams][Dialect] for ཤལ་བ་ "harrow".
ཤལ་ཐག་
Transliteration: shal thag
<noun> "Harrow rope". The name given to the rope used to drag a ཤལ་བ་ harrow across fields; see བཤལ་སྐོར་ harrow over the fields. Also spelled བཤལ་ཐག་ q.v.
བཤལ་སྐོར་
Transliteration: bshal skor
<noun> "Harrowing". The name of one type of work done to farmer's fields. The device called a ཤལ་བ་ "harrow" is hauled over fields that have just been ploughed up in order to level them or over fields just planted with seed in order to level the fields and seal in the seeds.
བཤལ་བ་
Transliteration: bshal ba
I. <verb> v.t. བཤལ་བ་/ བཤལ་བ་/ བཤལ་བ་/ བཤོལ་/. 1) "To clean out", "to wash out / off". This verb is used in the sense of using water or liquid to clean out impurity or rinse off impurity. E.g., [TC] དཀར་ཡོལ་ཆུས་བཤལ་བ། "to clean the cups with water"; ཁ་བཤལ་བ། "to rinse out the mouth"; བྱེ་ཕུང་ཆུ་ཡིས་བཤལ་བ་ལྟར་ཚེགས་མེད་ལས་སླ། "easier than easy—like washing out a heap of dust with water! (cyni…
ཤལ་མ་ལིའི་ཚལ་
Transliteration: shal ma li'i tshal
<noun> "Śhalmali Forest". Translation of the Sanskrit "ayaḥśhalmalīvana". A forest in one of the four places in the third of the ཉེ་འཁོར་བའི་དམྱལ་བ་བཞི་ "four neighbouring hells". The forest is made up of ཤལ་མ་ལིའི་སྡོང་པོ་ Śhalmali trees q.v.
