རྩེ

Tibetan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsjaːj (“to play”). Related to རྩེན (rtsen, “to take delight in games; to enjoy”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rt͡se/
• Lhasa: /t͡se˥˥/
• Batang: /t͡se˥˥/
• Bla-Brang: /ht͡se/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rt͡se/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ze^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡se˥˥/
• Khams
  • (Batang) IPA^(key): /t͡se˥˥/
• Amdo
  • (Bla-Brang) IPA^(key): /ht͡se/

Verb

རྩེ • (rtse) (nominal form རྩེ་བ)

1. (intransitive or transitive) to play, to frolic, to disport oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of རྩེ

Tense/Mood	Form	Wylie
Present	རྩེ རྩེད	rtse rtsed
Future	རྩེ རྩེད བརྩེ	rtse rtsed brtse
Past	རྩེས བརྩེས	rtses brtses
Imperative	རྩེས རྩེད	rtses rtsed

Derived terms

• རྩེ་གྲོགས (rtse grogs)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsej (“summit; crest; cockscomb”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rt͡se/
• Lhasa: /t͡se˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rt͡se/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: ze^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡se˥˥/

Noun

རྩེ • (rtse)

1. peak, top, summit
2. point (a particular point)
3. (figurative) government; Potala Palace

Derived terms

• ལྕེ་རྩེ (lce rtse)
• རྩེ་མོ (rtse mo)