ཁྲུས

Tibetan

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*kʰrus/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂʰyː˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*kʰrus/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: chue^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰyː˥˥/

Noun

ཁྲུས • (khrus)

1. washing, bath
2. religious purificatory washing, ablution
3. a specific, Tibetan Buddhist, water-based cleansing ritual
4. the water with which a religious, purificatory washing is performed

   Synonyms: ཁྲུས་ཆུ (khrus chu), (honorific) ཁྲུས་ཆབ (khrus chab)

Derived terms

ཁྲུས་ཆུ (khrus chu), ཁྲུས་ཆབ (khrus chab), ཁྲུས་ཁང (khrus khang)

Verb

ཁྲུས • (khrus) (nominal form ཁྲུས་པ)

1. past of འཁྲུ ('khru)
2. imperative of འཁྲུ ('khru)