Tibetan

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsəj (medicine; juice; paint). Compare Nuosu (cy) (as in ꁬꋌ (bbut cy)), Lolopo naxcir (medicine), Naxi cher'ee (medicine), Burmese ဆေး (hce:), Chinese (OC *sʰiɡ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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རྩི (rtsi)

  1. grass, plants, thickets
  2. juice, fluid, essence, extract
  3. herb, remedy, medicine
  4. paint, dye
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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རྩི (rtsi) (nominal form རྩི་བ)

  1. (transitive) to count, to reckon, to calculate
  2. (transitive) to think that something is, to regard as
  3. (transitive) to think about doing something, to plan on
  4. (transitive) to go against, to defy, to accept, to bear
Conjugation
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References

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  • རྩི” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • རྩི” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.