རྒྱལ་པོ

See also: རྒྱལཔོ and རྒྱལ་བ

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱལ (rgyal, “royal, regal”) +‎ པོ (po, “nominalisation/agent suffix”). Cognate with Dzongkha རྒྱལཔོ (rgyalpo).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲal.po/
• Lhasa: /ɟɛː˩˨.poˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲal.po/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ghyae^v-bo
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɟɛː˩˨.poˑ/

Noun

རྒྱལ་པོ • (rgyal po)

1. king, ruler's title
2. a class of spirit

Derived terms

• འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ ('brug rgyal po)

Descendants

• → Wutunhua: jjhawo