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Etymology

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Compare Burmese မ္လိယ် (ma.liy), whence Burmese မြေ (mre, earth; ground), and Chinese (OC *l'els) (Hill, 2019).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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གཞི (gzhi)

  1. (logic) ground, basis, foundation
  2. cause, source
  3. background color or pattern

Derived terms

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References

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  • གཞི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.