རིན་པོ་ཆེ

Tibetan

Alternative forms

• རིན་པོ་ཅེ (rin po ce)

Etymology

རིན (rin, “value, price”) +‎ པོ་ཆེ (po che, “big kind of; intensifying or emphatic suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rin.po.t͡ɕʰe/
• Lhasa: /ʐim˩˨.pu˥˥.t͡ɕʰiˑ/, /ʐĩ˩˨.po˥˥.t͡ɕʰeˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rin.po.t͡ɕʰe/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: rim^v-bu^f-qi, rin^v-bo^f-qe
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʐim˩˨.pu˥˥.t͡ɕʰiˑ/, /ʐĩ˩˨.po˥˥.t͡ɕʰeˑ/

Noun

རིན་པོ་ཆེ • (rin po che)

1. precious substance, jewel, gem
2. rinpoche (honorific Buddhist title)

Descendants

• Chinese: 仁波切 (rénbōqiè)