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Tibetan
Etymology
From རྒྱ (rgya, “expanse, empire”) + སེར (ser, “yellow”). Compare རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”, literally “the black expanse”) and རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”, literally “the white expanse”); the choice of yellow for Russia is unclear, but may reference the Golden Horde.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
རྒྱ་སེར • (rgya ser)
- (historical) Russia (A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
- Synonym: ཨུ་རུ་སུ (u ru su)
Declension
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.