སེམས་གསོ

Tibetan

Etymology

སེམས (sems, “mind, spirit”) +‎ གསོ (gso, “heal”)

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*sems.kso/
Lhasa: /sem˥˥.soˑ/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*sems.kso/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: sem^f-so
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /sem˥˥.soˑ/

Noun

སེམས་གསོ • (sems gso)

comfort, consolation, solace
Synonym: (honorific) ཐུགས་གསོ (thugs gso)

References

“སེམས་གསོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
Goldstein, Melvyn; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup (1984), English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 85