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སྐྱི་ལྤགས་
Transliteration: skyi lpags
<phrase> Any skin that is very thin. E.g., leather skived so that it is very supple and thin and which is used for gloves and other fine clothing or chamois leather used for cleaning.
སྐྱི་
Transliteration: skyi
I. <verb> See སྐྱི་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun>1) Abbrev. of སྐྱི་བ་ i) meaning the plant; ii) meaning interest on a loan. 2) Used in conjunction with many other terms to refer to the thin outer layer of some other layer. E.g., it is the very thin and supple leather that is produced when a thicker leather hide has its inner surface skived away. E.g., it is the outer white membrane on flesh.
སྐྱི་བ་
Transliteration: skyi ba
I. <verb> v.t. བསྐྱིས་པ་/ སྐྱི་བ་/ བསྐྱི་བ་/ སྐྱིས་/. "To borrow" anything of value. E.g., [TC] དངུལ་སྐྱི་བ། "to borrow silver / money"; འབྲུ་སྐྱི་བ། "to borrow grain"; རང་ལ་མེད་དུས་གཞན་ནས་སྐྱིས། "when you don't have it yourself, borrow it from another!" Note that this term is exactly equivalent to གཡར་བ་. It is used instead of གཡར་བ་ in some places, e.g., in གཙང་ Tsang. It is used by both …
སྐྱི་ཤ་
Transliteration: skyi sha
<phrase> 1) The skin and the flesh under it. 2) Flesh inside the skin.
ཝ་ལྤགས་
Transliteration: wa lpags
<phrase> "Fox-pelt", "fox-skin"; the skin (pelt) of a fox.
ལྤགས་པ་
Transliteration: lpags pa
<noun> Commonly spelled as པགས་པ་ with no difference in meaning. "Skin". 1) The living, fleshy skin of a being such as a human or animal. One of མངལ་སྐྱེས་ཁམས་དྲུག་ "the six elements of birth in a womb" q.v. 2) The dead, fleshy skin of a human or animal both cured e.g., meaning "leather" or uncured as in a "hide" or "skin". 3) The peel or skin of fruit e.g., apple-peel, orange-peel, etc.