གཤིན་རྒྱལ
Tibetan
Etymology
From གཤིན (gshin, “death, the dead”) + རྒྱལ་པོ (rgyal po, “king, lord”).
Pronunciation
- Old Tibetan: /*kɕin.rɡʲal/
- Lhasa: /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/
- Old Tibetan:
- IPA(key): /*kɕin.rɡʲal/ (reconstructed)
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: shinf-ghyae
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʂĩ˥˥.ɟɛːˑ/
Proper noun
གཤིན་རྒྱལ • (gshin rgyal)
- (Hinduism) Yama, the Hindu god of death
- (astronomy) Pluto, the dwarf planet and Kuiper Belt object
- Synonym: གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ (gshin rgyal skar ma)
References
- “གཤིན་རྒྱལ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- “གཤིན་རྒྱལ་སྐར་མ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.