རྒྱ

Sherpa

Noun

རྒྱ (rgya) (Devanagari spelling र्ग्य)

1. lowlands

Tibetan

Etymology 1

Compare Chinese 夏 (OC *ɡraːʔ, *ɡraːs).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa/
• Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨/

Noun

རྒྱ • (rgya)

1. extent, size, area, width
2. vastness, extensiveness
3. Abbreviation of རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag, “China”).

   རྒྱ་རྣམས

   rgya rnams

   the Chinese

4. Abbreviation of རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar, “India”).
5. enclosure, net, web
6. seal, stamp, mark, sign

Derived terms

• རྒྱ་སྐད (rgya skad)
• རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar)
• རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ (rgya chen po)
• རྒྱ་ནག (rgya nag)
• རྒྱ་མི (rgya mi)
• རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)
• རྒྱ་སེར (rgya ser)

 

Verb

རྒྱ • (rgya) (nominal form རྒྱ་བ)

1. (intransitive) to increase in bulk or quantity, to augment, to spread

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྒྱ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྒྱ རྒྱས	rgya rgyas
Future	རྒྱ རྒྱས	rgya rgyas
Past	རྒྱས	rgyas
Imperative	རྒྱས	rgyas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-gya-n. (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa/
• Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨/

Noun

རྒྱ • (rgya)

1. beard

Derived terms

• རྒྱ་བོ (rgya bo)
• རྒྱ་མོ (rgya mo)

 

References

• “རྒྱ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.