རྒྱ་མཚོ

Tibetan

Etymology

Compound of རྒྱ (rgya, “vast, broad”) +‎ མཚོ (mtsho, “lake”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/
• Lhasa: /ɟa˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/, /ɟam˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.mt͡sʰo/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghya^v-co, ghyam^v-co
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟa˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/, /ɟam˩˨.t͡sʰoˑ/

Noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

1. sea, ocean

Proper noun

རྒྱ་མཚོ • (rgya mtsho)

1. a unisex given name, equivalent to English Gyatso, the second word in the personal names of each Dalai Lama except for the first