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Sherpa
Noun
རྒྱ (rgya) (Devanagari spelling र्ग्य)
- lowlands
Tibetan
Etymology 1
Compare Chinese 夏 (OC *ɡraːʔ, *ɡraːs).
Pronunciation
Noun
རྒྱ • (rgya)
- extent, size, area, width
- vastness, extensiveness
- Abbreviation of རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”).
རྒྱ་རྣམས- rgya rnams
- the Chinese
- Abbreviation of རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”).
- enclosure, net, web
- seal, stamp, mark, sign
Derived terms
Verb
རྒྱ • (rgya) (nominal form རྒྱ་བ)
- (intransitive) to increase in bulk or quantity, to augment, to spread
Conjugation
Conjugation of རྒྱ
| Tense/Mood
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Form
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Wylie
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| Present
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རྒྱ
རྒྱས |
rgya
rgyas
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| Future
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རྒྱ
རྒྱས |
rgya
rgyas
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| Past
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རྒྱས |
rgyas
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| Imperative
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རྒྱས |
rgyas
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-gya-n. (STEDT).
Pronunciation
Noun
རྒྱ • (rgya)
- beard
Derived terms
References
- “རྒྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.