Sherpa edit

Noun edit

རྒྱ (rgya) (Devanagari spelling र्ग्य)

  1. lowlands

Tibetan edit

Etymology 1 edit

Compare Chinese (OC *ɡraːʔ, *ɡraːs).

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

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 edit

Verb edit

རྒྱ (rgya) (nominal form རྒྱ་བ)

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

Etymology 2 edit

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

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

རྒྱ (rgya)

  1. beard
Derived terms edit

References edit

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