རྒྱུད

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

རྒྱུད (rgyud)

  1. string, chain; connector
  2. connection, continuity
  3. lineage
  4. family
  5. race

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 43

Tibetan

Pronunciation


Noun

རྒྱུད • (rgyud)

  1. string
  2. continuum, continuity, succession
  3. stream
  4. region, area, location
  5. (family) lineage, descent
  6. tantra, (tantric treatise)
  7. character trait, nature
  8. consciousness, life
  9. bank, shore, coast, edge, side
  10. range

Derived terms

  • ཁྱིམ་གྲྭ (khyim grwa)
  • ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད (khyim rgyud)
  • ཁྱིམ་ཆགས (khyim chags)
  • རྒྱུད་སྐུད (rgyud skud)
  • རྒྱུད་གྱོང་པོ (rgyud gyong po)
  • རྒྱུད་གཅིག་པ (rgyud gcig pa)
  • རྒྱུད་གཉིས (rgyud gnyis)