ལེགས་སྦྱར

Tibetan

Etymology

From ལེགས (legs, “excellent, perfect”) +‎ སྦྱར (sbyar, “linked, joined”). Calque of Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta, literally “well-made; perfectly put together”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*leks.zbʲar/
• Lhasa: /le(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡ɕaː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*leks.zbʲar/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: leg^v-jaa^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /le(k̚)ˀ˩˨.t͡ɕaː˥˥/

Noun

ལེགས་སྦྱར • (legs sbyar)

1. Sanskrit (language)
2. well-connected words
3. talk, speech, lecture

Derived terms

• ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད (legs sbyar skad)