ཚོགས་སྡེ

Tibetan

Etymology

ཚོགས (tshogs, “accumulation”) +‎ སྡེ (sde, “section, division, department, subgroup”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*t͡sʰoks.zde/
• Lhasa: /t͡sʰoŋ˥˥.deˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*t͡sʰoks.zde/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: cong^f-dde
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰoŋ˥˥.deˑ/

Noun

ཚོགས་སྡེ • (tshogs sde)

1. institution, organization

   Synonyms: ལས་ཁུངས (las khungs), སྒྲིག་འཛུགས (sgrig 'dzugs)

2. corporation

   Synonym: ལྷན་ཚོགས་སྒྲིགས་འཛུགས (lhan tshogs sgrigs 'dzugs)

3. congregation

   Synonym: ལྷན་ཚོགས (lhan tshogs)