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སྐྱ་ག་
Transliteration: skya ga
<noun> 1) The bird "crow". Note that crows in South-east Asia are not always completely black. The common crow is black with a white blaze on the chest. Tibetans also often use the Sanskrit-derived term ཀ་ཀ་ to mean crow. See also བྱ་རོག་ "black crow". 2) "Magpie"; although the term actually refers to the crow, since the Magpie bird is very similar in appearance to the common crow of this a…
སྐྱ་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: skya skya
<adj>phrase> For colours, meaning "whitish" form of the colour but for white meaning a "greyish" form.
སྐྱ་
Transliteration: skya
I. <verb> See སྐྱ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) The "harvest" or "crop" or "produce" of a year not meaning the actual ལོ་ཏོག་ harvest but the totality of the harvest and the produce of various foods and drinks that come from it in any given year. 2) Indicating a pale colour. E.g., [TYL] ཁ་དང་མིག་གཉིས་སྐྱ་ལོག་འགྲོ་ "(at the time of death) the mouth and eyes turn pale". i) In ancient India, orda…
ས་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: sa skya
<noun> "Sakya". 1) The term lit. means ས་མདོག་དཀར་ཞིང་སྐྱ་བ་ "grey earth". 2) "Sakya (Dzong)" is the name of a རྫོང་ Dzong in Tibet that was named for the greyish colour of the earth in the area. 3) "Sakya (tradition)". The Sakya Dzong was the home of a particular tradition of Dharma teachings brought from India in the later spread of dharma. The tradition derived from the ལམ་འབྲས་ Path and…
གྲུ་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: gru skya
<noun> "Oar" or "pole". Abbrev. of གྲུ་ཡི་སྐྱ་བ་. An oar or pole using for propelling a boat / ferry etc. See also སྐྱ་བ་. E.g., གྲུ་སྐྱ་རྒྱག་པ། "to row using oars", "to dip the oars", "to use the oars".
སྐྱ་བ་
Transliteration: skya ba
I. <verb> v.t. བསྐྱས་པ་/ སྐྱ་བ་/ བསྐྱ་བ་/ སྐྱོས་/. 1) "To move" or "to shift" dwelling place / residence to a new location. E.g., རུ་བ་སྐྱ་བ། "for nomads and the like to shift camp / move their settlement to a new place". 2) [Old] [TC] gives as སྐྱེལ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) The wooden stick-like article used to push along or row a boat hence "paddle", "oar". Note that it does not necessa…
སྒ་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: sga skya
<noun> "White or pale ginger". Various types of the plant substance ginger are distinguished according to their colour.
སྔོ་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: sngo skya
<noun> 1) The colour that comes from mixing blue with white. Hence "whitish-blue", "pale blue", "light blue". Like སྔོ་དཀར་ but a little different, q.v. 2) Sometimes for the colour "grey".
སྐྱ་སེང་
Transliteration: skya seng
<noun> 1) Same as སྐྱ་སང་ q.v. 2) Translation of the Sanskrit "pāṇḍu". Pāṇḍu was the name of the father of the five Paṇḍavas, who were one important group of very ancient heroes mentioned in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
སྐྱ་བོ་
Transliteration: skya bo
I. <noun> "Layman". The name is derived from the fact that in ancient India the ordained people wore brightly coloured robes and the lay people, the unordained ones, wore white mostly. Thus the term really means "the pale-clothed" ones.
II. Used to refer to anything which is either a "pale shade" or a shade of another colour with white mixed into it. E.g., སྐྱ་བོ་ "whitish", "pale" or (assum…
མི་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: mi skya
<noun> "Layman". Abbrev. of མི་སྐྱ་བོ་. The name refers to the fact that householders in ancient India wore white in contrast to the adherents of various religions who left the home and wandered in pursuit of their religion and wore other colours. However, it comes to mean the class of "laypeople", the ཁྱིམ་པ་ householders, as opposed to monks, sadhus, etc. Hence also, "layman / laywoman / …
སྐྱ་སེར་
Transliteration: skya ser
<noun> 1) Lit. "white and yellow" meaning མི་སྐྱ་ "laymen" and monks since laymen traditionally wore white and monks yellow. Note that the term སྐྱ་ here does not mean "grey" as some have given. 2) The colour "pale yellow" or "light yellow".
སེར་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: ser skya
I. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "kapila". 1) "Whitish-yellow". The colour that results from mixing yellow with white. 2) [Mngon] Metaphoric term for i) the sun and ii) ཁྱབ་འཇུག་ Viṣhṇu. 3) "Kapila", see under དྲང་སྲོང་སེར་སྐྱ་ Ṛiṣhi Kapila. 4) A common abbrev. of the name of the town སེར་སྐྱའི་གནས་ "Kapilavastu" in North India q.v.
II. <phrase> Lit. "Yellows and whites" a term fo…
ས་ག་
Transliteration: sa ga
<noun> The name of a star, a corresponding constellation, and the associated lunar month. In Sanskrit, it is called བི་ཤཱ་ཁ་ "viśhākha" or བཻ་ཤཱ་ཁ་ "vaiśhākha". According to Western sources [MWS], it is "Alpha Libroe". In the Indian system, it is the sixteenth of the རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་ twenty-eight stars / constellations of the lunar zodiac q.v. The star rises with the full moon on a …
སྤུན་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: spun skya
<noun> 1) "Relative", "relation", "kin", "family". The most general term used for humans who belong to the same family whether by birth or by other relationship. It includes both blood-relations and marital relations: brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, wives, husbands, and in-laws, or anyone else who is part of and considered to be part of a family are all སྤུན་སྐྱ…
དཀར་སྐྱ་
Transliteration: dkar skya
<noun> The colour either "grey" that comes from mixing the colour white with black. It can be any level of grey from dark to light, i.e., the སྐྱ་ in this case does not mean pale, it simply means the grey form of the colour white; for comparison see also དམར་སྐྱ་ pink.
སྐྱ་རིས་
Transliteration: skya ris
<noun> 1) "Sketch" meaning a very quickly executed drawing. 2) An outline or drawing done with pencil, etc. In Tibet, where there were no pencils, this was usually done with charcoal.